CVE-2022-27227

low

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

2.5

Description

In PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.4.3, 4.5.x before 4.5.4, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1 and PowerDNS Recursor before 4.4.8, 4.5.x before 4.5.8, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1, insufficient validation of an IXFR end condition causes incomplete zone transfers to be handled as successful transfers.

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-2022-27227

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27227.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`4.6.1-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.6.1-1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27227.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-27227

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