Improper Input Validation Affecting powerdns package, versions [,1.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POWERDNS-3003883
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-14663  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade powerdns to version 1.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. An issue has been found in PowerDNS DNSDist before 1.3.3 allowing a remote attacker to craft a DNS query with trailing data such that the addition of a record by dnsdist, for example an OPT record when adding EDNS Client Subnet, might result in the trailing data being smuggled to the backend as a valid record while not seen by dnsdist. This is an issue when dnsdist is deployed as a DNS Firewall and used to filter some records that should not be received by the backend. This issue occurs only when either the 'useClientSubnet' or the experimental 'addXPF' parameters are used when declaring a new backend.

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