CVE-2023-22617 (GCVE-0-2023-22617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-03 14:38
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Summary
A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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