CVE-2020-24696

HIGH

PowerDNS Authoritative <4.3.0 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 66.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (1)
powerdns/authoritative < 4.3.0
Published Oct 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026