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Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-7068

An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending crafted DNS queries, which might result in a partial denial of service if the system becomes overloaded. This issue is based on the fact that the PowerDNS server parses all records present in a query regardless of whether they are needed or even legitimate. A specially crafted query containing a large number of records can be used to take advantage of that behaviour.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 27.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3
CVSS v2 Score 7.8
Products affected by CVE-2016-7068


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