PowerDNS Recursor DNSSEC Validation Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2018-14644 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail.

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