7.5

CVE-2020-24697: powerdns authoritative

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2020-24697
Published 02-10-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-24697 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in powerdns authoritative. EPSS estimates a 4.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.41%
0%100%
Low · 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 0 · Related 1
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24697

Timeline

  1. 02-10-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.41% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
4.41%

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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • pdns< 4.4.0-1
Powerdns1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

2 links