CVE-2020-24696

8.1 highEPSS 1.4%

High (8.1) in powerdns authoritative. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code execution, by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.1 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 71% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2020-10-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

powerdns:authoritative

References

https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-06.html
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-06.html

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