CVE-2020-12244

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

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

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-2020-12244

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.2.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4.3.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.1-1

References

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