PT-2018-5759

CVE-2017-15092

Published

2018-01-23

Updated

2026-10-31

Description by

CVSS 3.1

6.1

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.6

Description: A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface, 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.

Recommendations: For versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.6, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Chris Navarrete

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-15092