GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93

GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.099999904632568 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

6.099999904632568

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

Query this with the API

The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93

Or with curl, using the org id and key from your account page:

curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-5v6v-h944-2g93/fixes/registry"

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