PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0 does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks. An issue in the DNS protocol has been found that allow malicious parties to use recursive DNS services to attack third party authoritative name servers. The attack uses a crafted reply by an authoritative name server to amplify the resulting traffic between the recursive and other authoritative name servers. Both types of service can suffer degraded performance as an effect. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records. PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.16, 4.2.2 and 4.3.1 contain a mitigation to limit the impact of this DNS protocol issue.
References
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https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-01.html | Vendor Advisory |
http://www.nxnsattack.com | Technical Description Third Party Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00052.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4691 | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NMP72NJGKBWR5WEBXAWX5KSLQUDFTG6S/ | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PS4ZN5XGENYNFKX7QIIOUCQQHXE37GJF/ | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2020-05-19 10:15
Updated : 2022-04-26 12:25
NVD link : CVE-2020-10995
Mitre link : CVE-2020-10995
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CWE
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Products Affected
opensuse
- backports_sle
- leap
fedoraproject
- fedora
powerdns
- recursor
debian
- debian_linux