CVE-2012-0024

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

08/01/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:maradns:maradns::::::::		1.3.07.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:maradns:maradns::::::::	1.4.0 (including)	1.4.08 (excluding)

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CVE-2012-0024

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools