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Vulnerability details: VCID-ch2d-p2ru-23ex
Vulnerability ID VCID-ch2d-p2ru-23ex
Aliases CVE-2018-10851
Summary PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
epss 0.00108 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
cvssv3 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
archlinux Medium https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-804
archlinux Medium https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-805
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-10851
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10851
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
913162 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913162
913163 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913163
ASA-201811-12 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-12
ASA-201811-13 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-13
AVG-804 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-804
AVG-805 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-805
USN-7203-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7203-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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physical

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none

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unchanged

changed

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none

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low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.29135
EPSS Score 0.00108
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:32:58.039915+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0