CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-36754
High (7.5) in powerdns authoritative server. EPSS 65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.
Severity
- EPSS
- 65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- powerdns:authoritative_server
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/26/2
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/index.html
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2021-01.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/26/2
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/index.html