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CVE-2008-3337
PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS…
Medium6.4EPSS 6.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- SUSE-SR:2008:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7048 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31401 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30587 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 31687 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31448 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1628 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://doc.powerdns.com/powerdns-advisory-2008-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33264 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [pdns-users] 20080806 Security update: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.21.1 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- powerdns-query-weak-security(44253) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- GLSA-200812-19 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31407 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-3324 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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