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CVE-2020-12667

7.5 highEPSS 2.6%

High (7.5) in nic knot resolver. EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Knot Resolver before 5.1.1 allows traffic amplification via a crafted DNS answer from an attacker-controlled server, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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