VDB
CVE-2017-15120
CVE-2017-15120
PUBLISHED
An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.
EPSS 0.33% · 56.4th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.33%
56.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | pdns-recursor | 0, 3.7.3-1, 4.0.0~alpha1-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc-repo)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc)
- PowerDNS CVE-2017-15120 / DO NOT ABUSE (github-poc)
…and 6 more exploits
Timeline
- Jul 27, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 11, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15120 third-party-advisory
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15120 third-party-advisory