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CVE-2024-8418

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-8418 describes a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Aardvark-dns, specifically affecting containers aardvark-dns. An attacker can exploit this flaw by maintaining an open TCP DNS connection, leading to serial processing of queries and ultimately causing the server to become unresponsive and legitimate DNS services to time out. Rated 7.5 HIGH on the CVSS scale, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no privileges or user interaction, resulting in a high impact on availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:containers:aardvark-dns:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:containers:aardvark-dns:1.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: aardvark-dns-2:1.14.0-1.el9
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: aardvark-dnsFixed in: 1.12.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

rustGHSA-g5jh-57wm-p79mhigh

Missing connection timeout in Aardvark-dns

Sep 4, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-8418Moderate

containers/aardvark-dns: TCP Query Handling Flaw in Aardvark-dns Leading to Denial of Service

Sep 4, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2025:7094
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-8418
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
github.com / containers/aardvark-dns/issues/500
ExploitIssue Tracking
github.com / containers/aardvark-dns/pull/503
Issue Tracking