vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15091: Incorrect Authorization

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 23, 2018
Added
Jan 23, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are still allowed even though the API has been configured as read-only via the api-readonly keyword. This missing check allows an attacker with valid API credentials to flush the cache, trigger a zone transfer or send a NOTIFY.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pdns
Title
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