vulnerability

Arch Linux: Insufficient validation (CVE-2019-3871)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 21, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.1.7, when the HTTP remote backend is used in RESTful mode (without post=1 set), allowing a remote user to cause the HTTP backend to connect to an attacker-specified host instead of the configured one, via a crafted DNS query. This can be used to cause a denial of service by preventing the remote backend from getting a response, content spoofing if the attacker can time its own query so that subsequent queries will use an attacker-controlled HTTP server instead of the configured one, and possibly information disclosure if the Authoritative Server has access to internal servers.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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