CVE-2018-14626

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-14626 · Published 29/11/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-14626 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting authoritative (powerdns), recursor (powerdns).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 86.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
authoritative powerdns	`≥ 4.1.0, ≤ 4.1.4`	No fix yet
recursor powerdns	`≥ 4.0.0, ≤ 4.1.4`	No fix yet

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can lead to denial of service.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-05.html · Vendor Advisory
doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-06.html · Vendor Advisory

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