CVE-2020-25686

2021-01-2016:47:17

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 receiving a query, dnsmasq does not check for an existing pending request for the same name and forwards a new request. By default, a maximum of 150 pending queries can be sent to upstream servers, so there can be at most 150 queries for the same name. This flaw allows an off-path attacker on the network to substantially reduce the number of attempts that it would have to perform to forge a reply and have it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue is mentioned in the “Birthday Attacks” section of RFC5452. If chained with CVE-2020-25684, 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"
      }
    ]
  }
]