CVE-2017-15107
A vulnerability was found in the implementation of DNSSEC in Dnsmasq up to and including 2.78.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.65%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A vulnerability was found in the implementation of DNSSEC in Dnsmasq up to and including 2.78. Wildcard synthesized NSEC records could be improperly interpreted to prove the non-existence of hostnames that actually exist.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.65% probability · 86th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-358
- Affected
- thekelleys/dnsmasq
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 2.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00027.html
- http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2018q1/011896.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102812Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00027.html
- http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2018q1/011896.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102812Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.