CVE-2019-10163
A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.00%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS
- 1.00% probability · 63th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- powerdns/authoritative · opensuse/backports · opensuse/leap
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 1.0% 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/2019-08/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1-10-released/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-05.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00036.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00054.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/06/21/powerdns-authoritative-server-4-0-8-and-4-1-10-released/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10163Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-05.htmlVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.