CVE-2020-12667 (GCVE-0-2020-12667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
Summary
Knot Resolver before 5.1.1 allows traffic amplification via a crafted DNS answer from an attacker-controlled server, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nic knot_resolver Affected: -
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Date Public
2020-05-19 00:00
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