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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2017-15092 json

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname…

published 2018-01-23 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6560

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without any escaping, allowing a remote attacker to inject HTML and Javascript code into the web interface, altering the content.

Patch / fix

  • pdns-recursor Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15092

  • pdns-recursor openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.5.5-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11157-1

  • pdns-recursor Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 4.0.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-15092

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • powerdns-recursor Arch Linux 4.0.7-1

arch linux advisories AVG-520

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-15092 updated

pdns-recursor: 4.0.7 release fixing security issues

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • PowerDNS PowerDNS Recursor

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.