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CVE-2018-17419

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-17419 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Miek Gieben DNS library for Go, specifically versions prior to 1.0.10. A parsing error within the setTA function in scan_rr.go can lead to a segmentation violation when processing DNS zone files. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction to cause a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dns_library_project:dns_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/miekg/dnsFixed in: 1.0.10
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10Fixed in: openshift4/ose-kube-proxy:v4.10.0-202305261541.p0.g15f00b7.assembly.stream
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11Fixed in: openshift4/ose-kube-proxy:v4.11.0-202305240155.p0.g3018862.assembly.stream
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/ose-kube-proxy:v4.12.0-202305212342.p0.gd4b6594.assembly.stream
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-kube-proxy:v4.13.0-202305180130.p0.gd56dc6a.assembly.stream
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14Fixed in: openshift4/ose-sdn-rhel8:v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g128c28c.assembly.stream
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Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-9jcx-pr2f-qvq5high

miekg/dns parsing error leads to nil pointer dereference and DoS

May 18, 2021
redhatCVE-2018-17419Moderate

dns: Denial of Service (DoS)

Mar 8, 2019

References

github.com / miekg/dns/issues/742
ExploitThird Party Advisory