CVE-2017-7557

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-7557 · Published 22/08/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-7557 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting dnsdist (powerdns).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.84%, higher than 57.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dnsdist powerdns	`= 1.1.0`	No fix yet

dnsdist version 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in authentication mechanism for REST API potentially allowing CSRF attack.

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