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LOW

CVE-2019-3807

CVE-2019-3807 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.1.x before 4.1.9 where records in the answer section of responses received from authoritative servers with the AA flag not set were not properly validated, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, redhat

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

power dns

pdns_recursor

CVSS base

3.7

LOW

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

Products (1)

pdns recursor

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
3.7CVSS 3.0LOWcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-345

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1557.002Adversary-in-the-Middle: ARP Cache Poisoning
  • T1584.002Compromise Infrastructure: DNS Server
  • T1491Defacement

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.