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CVE-2019-10162

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8...

3.5 LowFix available

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Exploit likelihood

1.69%Up 0.4 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 3.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.0
3.5 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-2195 3.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
EUVD-2019-2195
CVSS 3.0
3.5 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-66xg-v84p-j4x5 No score

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8...

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
GHSA-66xg-v84p-j4x5
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
3.5 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2019-10162 7.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
OSV 7.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2019-10162 7.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-10162 7.5

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10162
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
3.5 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2020-0375 No score

Updated pdns packages fix security vulnerability

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify (CVE-2019-10162).

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue (CVE-2019-10163).

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it tries to store the notified serial in the PostgreSQL database, if this serial cannot be represented in 31 bits (CVE-2019-10203).

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.3.1 where an authorized user with the ability to insert crafted records into a zone might be able to leak the content of uninitialized memory. Such a user could be a customer inserting data via a control panel, or somebody with access to the REST API. Crafted records cannot be inserted via AXFR (CVE-2020-17482).

The pdns package has been updated to version 4.1.14, fixing these issues and several other bugs. See the upstream changelog for details.

Also note that manual intervention is required to fix the CVE-2019-10203 issue for those using PostgreSQL with pdns. See the upstream blog post for details.

Record
MGASA-2020-0375
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2019:1904-1 No score

Security update for pdns

This update for pdns fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2019-10203: Updated PostgreSQL schema to address a possible denial of service by an authorized user by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. (boo#1142810)
  • CVE-2019-10162: Fixed a denial of service but when authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. (boo#1138582)
  • CVE-2019-10163: Fixed a denial of service of slave server when an authorized master server sends large number of NOTIFY messages. (boo#1138582)

Non-security issues fixed:

  • Enabled the option to disable superslave support.
  • Fixed pdnsutil b2b-migrate to not lose NSEC3 settings.
Record
openSUSE-SU-2019:1904-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2019:1921-1 No score

Security update for pdns

This update for pdns fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2019-10203: Updated PostgreSQL schema to address a possible denial of service by an authorized user by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. (boo#1142810)
  • CVE-2019-10162: Fixed a denial of service but when authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. (boo#1138582)
  • CVE-2019-10163: Fixed a denial of service of slave server when an authorized master server sends large number of NOTIFY messages. (boo#1138582)

Non-security issues fixed:

  • Enabled the option to disable superslave support.
  • Fixed pdnsutil b2b-migrate to not lose NSEC3 settings.

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.1:Update update project.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2019:1921-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:11156-1 No score

pdns-4.5.1-1.5 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the pdns-4.5.1-1.5 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:11156-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pdns
Alpine:v3.10
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.11
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.12
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.13
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.14
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.15
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.16
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.17
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.18
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.19
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pdns
Alpine:v3.20
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.21
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.22
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.23
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.24
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.7
before 4.0.8-r0
4.0.8-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.8
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Alpine:v3.9
before 4.1.10-r0
4.1.10-r0
pdns
Debian:12
before 4.1.6-3
4.1.6-3
pdns
Debian:13
before 4.1.6-3
4.1.6-3
pdns
Debian:14
before 4.1.6-3
4.1.6-3
pdns
Debian:8
before 3.4.1-4+deb8u10, plus listed versions
3.4.1-43.4.1-4+deb8u13.4.1-4+deb8u1~bpo70+13.4.1-4+deb8u23.4.1-4+deb8u3
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3.4.1-4+deb8u43.4.1-4+deb8u53.4.1-4+deb8u63.4.1-4+deb8u73.4.1-4+deb8u83.4.1-4+deb8u9
3.4.1-4+deb8u10
pdns
Debian:9
before 4.0.3-1+deb9u5, plus listed versions
4.0.3-14.0.3-1+deb9u14.0.3-1+deb9u24.0.3-1+deb9u34.0.3-1+deb9u4
4.0.3-1+deb9u5
pdns
Mageia:7
before 4.1.14-1.mga7
4.1.14-1.mga7
pdns
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.4.5-1build23.4.6-23.4.6-33.4.7-13.4.7-2
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4.0.0~alpha1-14.0.0~alpha2-24.0.0~alpha2-34.0.0~alpha2-3build14.0.0~alpha2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
None known
pdns
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.0.4-24.0.4-2build14.0.5-14.1.0-14.1.0-24.1.0-2build14.1.1-14.1.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
None known
pdns
SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP1
before 4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
pdns
SUSE:Package Hub 15
before 4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
pdns
openSUSE:Leap 15.0
before 4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
pdns
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
before 4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
4.1.2-bp150.2.9.1
pdns
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP1
before 4.1.8-bp151.3.3.1
4.1.8-bp151.3.3.1
pdns
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.5.1-1.5
4.5.1-1.5

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, aliases, referencesOSV
aliases, productsEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2019-10162 is a low vulnerability (CVSS 3.5) in Powerdns Authoritative, published June 23, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.69%, the 77th percentile. Fixed in pdns 4.1.10-r0.

References

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