CVE-2018-14626

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can lead to denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14626

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14626.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-12

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-13

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`4.1.5-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.1.5-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.1.5-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.1.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.1.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.1.5-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.