CVE-2019-10163

moderate-risk
Published 2019-07-30

A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.

Do I need to act?

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0.01% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 4.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Affected Vendors

Powerdns Opensuse

References (10)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00036.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.html
Vendor Advisory https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1...
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163
Vendor Advisory https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-201...
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00036.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.html
Vendor Advisory https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1...
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163
Vendor Advisory https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-201...
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moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 13/34 · Low