CVE-2018-14644

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14644

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14644.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

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

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.1.5-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.1.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.1.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.1.7-1
debian debiansidfixed4.1.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.1.7-1

References

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