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CVE-2023-22617

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2023-01-21 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Powerdns Recursor

Weakness Type

CWE-674, CWE-674

References