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CVE-2016-6171

8.6 highEPSS 2.8%

High (8.6) in knot-dns knot dns. EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Knot DNS before 2.3.0 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and slave server crash) via a large zone transfer for (1) DDNS, (2) AXFR, or (3) IXFR.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.6 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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