CVE-2023-26437lowCWE-400

CVE-2023-26437: low-severity vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor

Deterred spoofing attempts can lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailable

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8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 3.4epss 0.6%
Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
PowerDNS · Recursor
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