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CVE-2017-15090

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15090 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.6. It allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to forge DNSSEC signatures, leading to the acceptance of invalid DNS records. The attack has high complexity but requires no user interaction, potentially resulting in high integrity impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, though it did receive limited media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, <= 4.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:H/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 8th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

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

doc.powerdns.com / recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-03.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101982
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry