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Vulnerability details: VCID-8tar-s444-zfac
Vulnerability ID VCID-8tar-s444-zfac
Aliases CVE-2022-37428
Summary PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.2
Risk 1.6
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2022-37428
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-37428
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.16879
EPSS Score 0.00053
Published At April 2, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:35:48.183182+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0