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CVE-2018-14644

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14644 affects PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.4, where a remote attacker can cause a zone to be incorrectly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. This occurs when specific conditions are met, involving DNS queries for meta-types and FORMERR responses from authoritative servers of a signed parent zone. The vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a high impact on availability due to potential ServFail responses for DNSSEC-validating clients, with high attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, <= 4.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0484 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

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

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
docs.powerdns.com / recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2018-07.html
Vendor Advisory