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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2020-14196 json

In PowerDNS Recursor versions up to and including 4.3.1, 4.2.2 and 4.1.16, the ACL restricting access to the internal web server is not pro…

published 2020-07-01 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6351

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In PowerDNS Recursor versions up to and including 4.3.1, 4.2.2 and 4.1.16, the ACL restricting access to the internal web server is not properly enforced.

Patch / fix

  • pdns-recursor Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.3.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14196

  • pdns-recursor openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.5.5-1.3
  • pdns-recursor Package Hub 15 SP2, Package Hub 15 SP1, Package Hub 12 SP1 +2 more 4.3.5-bp152.2.12.1
  • pdns-recursor Package Hub 15 SP2 4.3.2-bp152.2.8.1
  • pdns-recursor Package Hub 15 SP2 4.1.12-bp152.2.4.1
  • pdns-recursor Package Hub 15 SP1, Package Hub 12 SP1, openSUSE Leap 15.2 +1 more 4.1.12-bp151.4.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11157-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1687-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1101-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1055-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1005-1

  • pdns-recursor Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +10 more 4.3.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-14196

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 4.3.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1199

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-2020-14196 updated cvss 5.9

pdns: ACL restricting access to the internal web server is not properly enforced

  • 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

1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

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.