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CVE-2020-12244

7.5 highEPSS 2.4%

High (7.5). EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-347
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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