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PowerDNS (Authoritative Server and Recursor) Detection (DNS)

🗓️ 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AGType 
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PowerDNS (Authoritative Server and Recursor) Detection (DNS

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powerdnswww.powerdns.com/
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100432");
  script_version("2025-10-31T05:40:56+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-10-31 05:40:56 +0000 (Fri, 31 Oct 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-01-07 12:29:25 +0100 (Thu, 07 Jan 2010)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_name("PowerDNS (Authoritative Server and Recursor) Detection (DNS)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Product detection");
  script_dependencies("dns_server_tcp.nasl", "dns_server.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("dns/server/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.powerdns.com/");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"DNS (TCP and UDP) based detection of PowerDNS (Authoritative
  Server and Recursor).");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("cpe.inc");

function getVersion( data, port, proto ) {

  local_var data, port, proto;
  local_var version, ver, type, cpe;

  if( ! data || "powerdns" >!< tolower( data ) )
    return;

  version = "unknown";
  ver = eregmatch( pattern:"PowerDNS [a-zA-Z ]*([0-9.]+)", string:data, icase:TRUE );
  if( ver[1] )
    version = ver[1];

  set_kb_item( name:"powerdns/recursor_or_authoritative_server/detected", value:TRUE );

  if( "Recursor" >< ver[0] ) {

    type = "Recursor";

    set_kb_item( name:"powerdns/recursor/detected", value:TRUE );

    cpe = build_cpe( value:version, exp:"^([0-9.]+)", base:"cpe:/a:powerdns:recursor:" );
    if( ! cpe )
      cpe = "cpe:/a:powerdns:recursor";
  } else {

    type = "Authoritative Server";

    set_kb_item( name:"powerdns/authoritative_server/detected", value:TRUE );

    cpe = build_cpe( value:version, exp:"^([0-9.]+)", base:"cpe:/a:powerdns:authoritative_server:" );
    if( ! cpe )
      cpe = "cpe:/a:powerdns:authoritative_server";
  }

  register_product( cpe:cpe, location:port + "/" + proto, port:port, proto:proto, service:"domain" );
  log_message( data:build_detection_report( app:"PowerDNS " + type,
                                            version:version,
                                            install:port + "/" + proto,
                                            cpe:cpe,
                                            concluded:ver[0] ),
               port:port,
               proto:proto );
}

udp_ports = get_kb_list( "DNS/udp/version_request" );
foreach port( udp_ports ) {

  data = get_kb_item( "DNS/udp/version_request/" + port );
  if( ! data )
    continue;

  getVersion( data:data, port:port, proto:"udp" );
}

tcp_ports = get_kb_list( "DNS/tcp/version_request" );
foreach port( tcp_ports ) {

  data = get_kb_item( "DNS/tcp/version_request/" + port );
  if( ! data )
    continue;

  getVersion( data:data, port:port, proto:"tcp" );
}

exit( 0 );

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