Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8601

Title: Powerdns Recursor Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8601.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Dec 10, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
68.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8601: PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by resolving domains hosted by ezdns.it.

Impacted Vendors

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powerdns 1

Reference Links

http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/ http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71545 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031310 http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2014-02/ http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71545 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031310
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8601 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.