CVE-2020-10030
Published May 19, 2020
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- Description
- An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0. It allows an attacker (with enough privileges to change the system's hostname) to cause disclosure of uninitialized memory content via a stack-based out-of-bounds read. It only occurs on systems where gethostname() does not have '\0' termination of the returned string if the hostname is larger than the supplied buffer. (Linux systems are not affected because the buffer is always large enough. OpenBSD systems are not affected because the returned hostname always has '\0' termination.) Under some conditions, this issue can lead to the writing of one '\0' byte out-of-bounds on the stack, causing a denial of service or possibly arbitrary code execution.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 8.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-125
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "9CF23533-E208-46EA-AD26-311F66A62358",
"versionEndIncluding": "4.3.0",
"versionStartIncluding": "4.1.0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]