Authoritative vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Authoritative is made by Powerdns. We track 20 published vulnerabilities listed under that exact name, across 91 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. Powerdns lists newer releases under their own names, such as Authoritative Server, so check those pages too.
We keep watching the known-exploited list.
Is Authoritative listed under other names? Yes.
Powerdns also lists Authoritative under more specific names, such as Authoritative Server. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. If you run one of these, open its page for its own exploited flaws.
Which Authoritative vulnerabilities are being exploited?
This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.
None of Authoritative's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Authoritative flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 82%CVE-2015-1868High
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers...
- 67%CVE-2015-5311Medium
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and server crash) via crafted query packets.
- 63%CVE-2016-5427High
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a .
- 31%CVE-2016-5426High
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a long qname.
- 11%CVE-2015-5470High
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...
- 9.0%CVE-2015-5230High
The DNS packet parsing/generation code in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.x before 3.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted query packets.
- 7.3%CVE-2016-7068High
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by...
- 6.2%CVE-2016-7072High
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server.
- 6.0%CVE-2018-10851High
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can...
- 4.4%CVE-2020-24697High
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used.
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The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.
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We track 20 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Authoritative, across 91 versions.
None of Authoritative's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
Powerdns also lists Authoritative under more specific names, such as Authoritative Server. Flaws listed only under those names are counted on their own pages, not here. Open the release you run to see its own list.
Create a Precursor Intelligence account and track Authoritative. We match it against every published flaw, give each one a risk score from 0 to 100 and keep watching, so you hear about new ones as soon as we know, by email, in the app or by webhook.