7.1

CVE-2016-6172

PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and secondary DNS server crash) via a large (1) AXFR or (2) IXFR response.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Opensuse ≫ Leap Version42.1
Opensuse ≫ Opensuse Version13.2
Powerdns ≫ Authoritative Server Version <= 4.0.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.013
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 6.8 2.2 4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 8.6 6.9
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.