CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-3871
High (8.8). EPSS 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend, allowing a remote user to cause a denial of service by making the server connect to an invalid endpoint, or possibly information disclosure by making the server connect to an internal endpoint and somehow extracting meaningful information about the response
Severity
- EPSS
- 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- powerdns:authoritative_server
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00022.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/18/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107491
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3871
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-03.html