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Status published
Medium
CVE-2022-37428
PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1,...
Vulnerability Description
PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
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Affected Vendor
powerdns
View all reports →Affected Software
recursor, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
4.5.0, 4.6.0, 4.7.0, 36
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 23rd, 2022
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:L/S:U/UI:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.