5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
71.0%
PowerDNS Recursor is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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
CPE = "cpe:/a:powerdns:recursor";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.807394");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:40+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3614");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:40 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-01-17 14:50:29 +0530 (Tue, 17 Jan 2017)");
script_name("PowerDNS Recursor Specific Sequence Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PowerDNS Recursor is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to an error in the
handling a specific sequence of packets which leads to crash PowerDNS
Recursor remotely.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
attackers to cause the target service to crash.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 on Linux.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/589");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69778");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://blog.powerdns.com/2014/09/10/security-update-powerdns-recursor-3-6-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://doc.powerdns.com/html/changelog.html");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("pdns_version.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("powerdns/recursor/installed", "Host/runs_unixoide");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://doc.powerdns.com/md");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!dnsPort = get_app_port(cpe:CPE)){
exit(0);
}
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_proto(cpe:CPE, port:dnsPort)){
exit(0);
}
version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
if(version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "3.6.0"))
{
fix = "3.6.1";
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:fix);
security_message(data:report, port:dnsPort, proto:proto);
exit(0);
}