CVE-2021-36754
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.
02 Description
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 64.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 99.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-07-27 05:35Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-07-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- fe314c254058f9c462243e57b437a089279e1ab0644b9641d0bf6a6b7cf644fc
05 Affected products
06 References
- doc.powerdns.comhttps://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/index.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210726 security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/26/2
- doc.powerdns.comhttps://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2021-01.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- powerdns Fixed in 4.5.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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