Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-24698 - Double Free vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
powerdns
CWE-415
critical

Summary

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitrary code execution. by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Powerdns
122

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)