CVE-2019-3871

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend, allowing a remote user to cause a denial of service by making the server connect to an invalid endpoint, or possibly information disclosure by making the server connect to an internal endpoint and somehow extracting meaningful information about the response

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-2019-3871

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3871.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201903-13

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.1.7-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.1.6-2
debian debianbullseyefixed4.1.6-2
debian debianforkyfixed4.1.6-2
debian debiansidfixed4.1.6-2
debian debiantrixiefixed4.1.6-2

References

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