Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3337

Title: Powerdns Powerdns Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-3337.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Aug 08, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3337: PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217.

Impacted Vendors

powerdns 2

Reference Links

http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-02.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2008-August/005646.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31401 http://secunia.com/advisories/31407 http://secunia.com/advisories/31448 http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 http://secunia.com/advisories/33264 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-19.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30587 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44253 https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1628 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00109.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00140.html http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-02.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2008-August/005646.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31401 http://secunia.com/advisories/31407 http://secunia.com/advisories/31448 http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 http://secunia.com/advisories/33264 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-19.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30587 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44253 https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1628 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00109.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00140.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3337 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 08, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.