Vulnerability CVE-2021-40083


Published: 2021-08-25

Description:
Knot Resolver before 5.3.2 is prone to an assertion failure, triggerable by a remote attacker in an edge case (NSEC3 with too many iterations used for a positive wildcard proof).

Type:

CWE-617

(Reachable Assertion)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
NIC -> Knot resolver 

 References:
https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/-/merge_requests/1169

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