Vulnerability Report

CVE-2023-50868

Title: Netapp H410S Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2023-50868

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date Feb 14, 2024

Modified Date Dec 23, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2023-50868: The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the "NSEC3" issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/16/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/16/3 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-50868 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219826 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5155 https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-01.html https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/-/releases/v5.7.1 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-50868 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00006.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00011.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6FV5O347JTX7P5OZA6NGO4MKTXRXMKOZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BUIP7T7Z4T3UHLXFWG6XIVDP4GYPD3AI/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVRDSJVZKMCXKKPP6PNR62T7RWZ3YSDZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IGSLGKUAQTW5JPPZCMF5YPEYALLRUZZ6/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PNNHZSZPG2E7NBMBNYPGHCFI4V4XRWNQ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGS7JN6FZXUSTC2XKQHH27574XOULYYJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVYA42BLXUCIDLD35YIJPJSHDIADNYMP/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEXGOYGW7DBS3N2QSSQONZ4ENIRQEAPG/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQESRWMJCF4JEYJEAKLRM6CT55GLJAB7/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZDZFMEKQTZ4L7RY46FCENWFB5MDT263R/ https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2024q1/017430.html https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2024/Feb/13/unbound-1.19.1-released/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240307-0008/ https://www.isc.org/blogs/2024-bind-security-release/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/16/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/16/3 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-50868 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219826 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5155 https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-01.html https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/-/releases/v5.7.1 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-50868 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00006.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00011.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00035.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6FV5O347JTX7P5OZA6NGO4MKTXRXMKOZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BUIP7T7Z4T3UHLXFWG6XIVDP4GYPD3AI/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVRDSJVZKMCXKKPP6PNR62T7RWZ3YSDZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IGSLGKUAQTW5JPPZCMF5YPEYALLRUZZ6/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PNNHZSZPG2E7NBMBNYPGHCFI4V4XRWNQ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGS7JN6FZXUSTC2XKQHH27574XOULYYJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVYA42BLXUCIDLD35YIJPJSHDIADNYMP/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TEXGOYGW7DBS3N2QSSQONZ4ENIRQEAPG/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQESRWMJCF4JEYJEAKLRM6CT55GLJAB7/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZDZFMEKQTZ4L7RY46FCENWFB5MDT263R/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BUIP7T7Z4T3UHLXFWG6XIVDP4GYPD3AI/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/HVRDSJVZKMCXKKPP6PNR62T7RWZ3YSDZ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZDZFMEKQTZ4L7RY46FCENWFB5MDT263R/ https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2024q1/017430.html https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2024/Feb/13/unbound-1.19.1-released/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240307-0008/ https://www.isc.org/blogs/2024-bind-security-release/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2023-50868 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/Goethe-Universitat-Cybersecurity/NSEC3-Encloser-Attack

View Code

December 23, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 14, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.