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CVE-2014-2031

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2031 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Deadwood DNS servers (versions before 2.3.09 and 3.x before 3.2.05) and MaraDNS (versions before 1.4.14 and 2.x before 2.0.09). This flaw, an out-of-bounds read and crash, can be triggered by remote attackers with permission to perform recursive queries, stemming from a logic error. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.9), it has a low attack complexity and high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maradns_project:maradns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.0.05, < 2.0.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maradns_project:maradns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.3.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:deadwood_project:deadwood:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.01, < 3.2.05CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:deadwood_project:deadwood:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

samiam.org / blog/2014-02-12.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/91203
VDB Entry
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/02/19/15
Mailing List
securitytracker.com / id/1029771
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry