knot-resolver before version 4.3.0 is vulnerable to denial of service through high CPU utilization. DNS replies with very many resource records might be processed very inefficiently, in extreme cases taking even several CPU seconds for each such uncached message. For example, a few thousand A records can be squashed into one DNS message (limit is 64kB).
CVE-2019-19331
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 80.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 16, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (6)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-19331
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00017.html
- secalert@redhathttps://www.knot-resolver.cz/2019-12-04-knot-resolver-4.3.0.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-19331
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00017.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.knot-resolver.cz/2019-12-04-knot-resolver-4.3.0.html
Weakness Classification(2)
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- CVE-2018-8639NVD 7.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS 97%HIGH
- CVE-2018-8611NVD 7.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS 90%HIGH
- CVE-2018-8453NVD 7.8EG 9.0 KEVEPSS 99%HIGH
- CVE-2018-8406NVD 7.8EG 9.0 KEVHIGH
- CVE-2018-8405NVD 7.8EG 9.0 KEVHIGH
- CVE-2018-8120NVD 7.0EG 9.0 KEVEPSS 99%HIGH
- CVE-2017-6627NVD 7.5EG 9.0 KEVEPSS 93%HIGH
- CVE-2018-8450EG 8.8EPSS 97%HIGH
- CVE-2019-1708EG 8.6HIGH
- CVE-2019-1706EG 8.6HIGH
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