High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 2, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-24697

Description

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

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Affected products

PowerDNS/Authoritative
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:authoritative:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=4.3.0
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Range: <=4.3.0
osv-coords6 versions
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/bionic pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/xenial pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=focal pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=jammy pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=noble pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdns?arch=src?distro=oracular
>= 0+ 5 more
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Patches

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References

doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-06.htmlnvdVendor Advisory

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