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CVE-2017-15120

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 51.79%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-07-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-15120
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
51.79%

Original NVD Description

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.