Description
A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00036.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1-10-released/
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-05.html
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
0.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (5)
opensuse/backports
sle-15 (2 CPE variants)
opensuse/leap
15.0
opensuse/leap
15.1
powerdns/authoritative
4.1.0
powerdns/authoritative
4.0.0 - 4.0.8
Published
Jul 30, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026