Cross-site scripting in PowerDNS Recursor - CVE-2017-15092

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Cross-site scripting in PowerDNS Recursor - CVE-2017-15092

Published: November 29, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9439
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15092
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

PowerDNS Recursor
Arch Linux
Fedora
pdns-recursor (Alpine package)
pdns-recursor

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15092

Update PowerDNS Recursor to version 4.0.7.

pdns-recursor (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.7-r0
pdns-recursor - addressed in versions 4.0.7-1.fc25, 4.0.7-1.fc26, 4.0.7-1.fc27, 4.1.3-2.el7, 4.1.3-2.fc27

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