Bug 2182849 (CVE-2023-26437)

Summary:	CVE-2023-26437 pdns-recursor: Deterred spoofing attempts can lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailable
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-29 19:23:30 UTC

From $URL:

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2023-02: Deterred spoofing attempts can lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailable
CVE: CVE-2023-26437
Date: 29th of March 2023
Affects: PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.6.5, 4.7.4 and 4.8.3
Not affected: PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.6, 4.7.5 and 4.8.4
Severity: Low
Impact: Denial of service
Exploit: Successful spoofing may lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailable
Risk of system compromise: None
Solution: Upgrade to patched version
When the recursor detects and deters a spoofing attempt or receives certain malformed DNS packets,
it throttles the server that was the target of the impersonation attempt so that other authoritative
servers for the same zone will be more likely to be used in the future, in case the attacker
controls the path to one server only. Unfortunately this mechanism can be used by an attacker with
the ability to send queries to the recursor, guess the correct source port of the corresponding
outgoing query and inject packets with a spoofed IP address to force the recursor to mark specific
authoritative servers as not available, leading a denial of service for the zones served by those
servers.

CVSS 3.0 score: 3.7 (Low)
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Thanks to Xiang Li from Network and Information Security Laboratory, Tsinghua University for reporting this issue.

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-29 19:23:54 UTC

Created pdns-recursor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2182851]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2182850]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-03-29 23:16:47 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.