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Vulnerability details: VCID-36qt-fxee-ruae
Vulnerability ID VCID-36qt-fxee-ruae
Aliases CVE-2023-22617
Summary A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
epss 0.01064 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1
ssvc Track https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
ssvc Track https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1
ssvc Track http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22617
1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1
1029367 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029367
4.8.html#change-4.8.1 https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1
security-advisories https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-03T14:36:48Z/ Found at https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-03T14:36:48Z/ Found at https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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adjacent_network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-03T14:36:48Z/ Found at http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/20/1
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.77621
EPSS Score 0.01064
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T18:51:23.650266+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.20/community.json 38.0.0