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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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.10
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.11
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.12
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.13
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.14
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.15
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.16
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.17
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.18
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.19
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.20
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.21
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.22
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.4
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.5
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.6
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.7
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:2.9.8
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3-0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3-0-1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.1.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.10
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.7
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.8
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:3.4.9
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.1.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:3.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:4.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:4.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0