Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 23, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-15092

Description

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

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Affected products

PowerDNS/Recursorllm-fuzzy
Range: 4.0.0 - 4.0.6
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/pdns-recursor&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 4.5.5-1.3
PowerDNS/Pdns Recursorcpe-rescue
Range: from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6

Patches

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References

doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-05.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/101982nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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