Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package powerdns  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POWERDNS-2371675
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 May 2020

CVE-2020-12244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

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