7.8

CVE-2015-5470: powerdns authoritative Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 7.8v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2015-5470DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5470DSA-3306-1
Published 02-11-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5470 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in powerdns authoritative. EPSS estimates a 11.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
33/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
11.28%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
MGASA-2015-0301

Timeline

  1. 02-11-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

11.28%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 11.28% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
11.28%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian2 products
  • pdns< 3.4.5-1 | < 3.4.1-4+deb8u2
  • pdns-recursor< 3.7.3-1 | < 3.6.2-2+deb8u2
Powerdns2 products
Ubuntu1 product
  • pdns-recursor< 3.5.3-1ubuntu0.1

3 vendors · 5 products

References

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