CVE-2017-15091

HIGH 7.1CVE-2017-15091 · Published 23/01/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-15091 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability affecting authoritative (powerdns).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
authoritative powerdns	`≥ 3.0, ≤ 3.4.11≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are still allowed even though the API has been configured as read-only via the api-readonly keyword. This missing check allows an attacker with valid API credentials to flush the cache, trigger a zone transfer or send a NOTIFY.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/101982 · Third Party Advisory
doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-04.html · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

authoritative

powerdns

≥ 3.0, ≤ 3.4.11≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.0.4

No fix yet

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