CVE-2018-10851

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.

PowerDNS Authoritative Server desde la versión 3.3.0 hasta la 4.1.4 excluyendo las versiones 4.1.5 y 4.0.6, y PowerDNS Recursor desde la versión 3.2 hasta la 4.1.4 excluyendo las versiones 4.1.5 y 4.0.9, son vulnerables a una fuga de memoria cuando se analizan registros mal formados que pueden conducir a una denegación de servicio (DoS) remota.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-05-09 CVE Reserved
2018-11-29 CVE Published
2023-11-23 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-772: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10851	Issue Tracking

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-03.html	2019-10-09
https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-04.html	2019-10-09

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Powerdns Search vendor "Powerdns"		Authoritative Search vendor "Powerdns" for product "Authoritative"				>= 3.3 <= 4.1.4 Search vendor "Powerdns" for product "Authoritative" and version " >= 3.3 <= 4.1.4"		-		Affected
Powerdns Search vendor "Powerdns"		Recursor Search vendor "Powerdns" for product "Recursor"				>= 3.2 <= 4.1.4 Search vendor "Powerdns" for product "Recursor" and version " >= 3.2 <= 4.1.4"		-		Affected