CVE-2020-12244

Published May 19, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4691-1 pdns-recursor security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4559 An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:48 AM
Reserved
Apr 24, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 19, 2020, 2:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:51 AM