CVE-2008-3217

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.81% (79th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.1.6 does not always use the strongest random number generator for source port selection, which makes it easier for remote attack vectors to conduct DNS cache poisoning. NOTE: this is related to incomplete integration of security improvements associated with addressing CVE-2008-1637.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-189USprimary

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
powerdns recursor≤ 3.1.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
powerdns recursor= 3.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-07-18modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

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