CVE-2020-25684

2021-01-2015:22:21

CWE-358

redhat

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.1%

JSON

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in the forward.c:reply_query() if the reply destination address/port is used by the pending forwarded queries. However, it does not use the address/port to retrieve the exact forwarded query, substantially reducing the number of attempts an attacker on the network would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue contrasts with RFC5452, which specifies a query’s attributes that all must be used to match a reply. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25685 or CVE-2020-25686, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "dnsmasq",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "dnsmasq 2.83"
      }
    ]
  }
]