Nic vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Nic has 18 published vulnerabilities across 4 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Knot Resolver, with 14. If you run Nic software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Nic products have the most vulnerabilities?

Knot Resolver leads with 14 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Knot Resolver14
  2. Bird2
  3. Foris1
  4. Knot CMS1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Nic vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Nic's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Nic 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.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. >99%

    Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the "KeyTrap" issue.

    CVSS7.5Published14 Feb 2024
  2. 3.5%

    Cache Poisoning issue exists in DNS Response Rate Limiting.

    CVSS5.9Published5 Nov 2019
  3. 3.3%

    Knot DNS before 1.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted DNS message.

    CVSS7.5Published27 Mar 2018
  4. 3.2%

    Improper input validation bug in DNS resolver component of Knot Resolver before 2.4.1 allows remote attacker to poison cache.

    CVSS6.8Published2 Aug 2018
  5. 3.2%

    BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.6.x through 1.6.7 and 2.x through 2.0.5 has a stack-based buffer overflow.

    CVSS7.5Published9 Sep 2019
  6. 2.6%

    Knot Resolver before 5.1.1 allows traffic amplification via a crafted DNS answer from an attacker-controlled server, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue.

    CVSS7.5Published19 May 2020
  7. 2.1%

    knot-resolver before version 4.3.0 is vulnerable to denial of service through high CPU utilization.

    CVSS7.5Published16 Dec 2019
  8. 2.0%

    A vulnerability was discovered in DNS resolver component of knot resolver through version 3.2.0 before 4.1.0 which allows remote attackers to bypass DNSSEC validation for non-existence answer.

    CVSS7.5Published16 Jul 2019
  9. 1.9%

    Knot Resolver before 5.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because of algorithmic complexity.

    CVSS7.5Published23 Sep 2022
  10. 1.9%

    A vulnerability was discovered in DNS resolver of knot resolver before version 4.1.0 which allows remote attackers to downgrade DNSSEC-secure domains to DNSSEC-insecure state, opening possibility of domain hijack...

    CVSS7.5Published16 Jul 2019
Every product

All Nic products we track.

4 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 18 published vulnerabilities across 4 products and 61 versions from Nic.

None of Nic's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Knot Resolver, with 14 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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