Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1868

Title: Powerdns Authoritative Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1868.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date May 18, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
81.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1868: The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.

Impacted Vendors

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powerdns 2

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156648.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156655.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156667.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156680.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156725.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156743.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3306 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3307 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74306 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032220 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156648.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156655.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156667.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156680.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156725.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156743.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3306 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3307 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74306 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032220
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-1868 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:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.