CVE-2019-10190
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A vulnerability was discovered in DNS resolver component of knot resolver through version 3.2.0 before 4.1.0 which allows remote attackers to bypass DNSSEC validation for non-existence answer. NXDOMAIN answer would get passed through to the client even if its DNSSEC validation failed, instead of sending a SERVFAIL packet. Caching is not affected by this particular bug but see CVE-2019-10191.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (5)
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references (18)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10190cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMSSWBHINIX4WE6UDXWM66L7JYEK6XS6/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZV5YZZ5766UIG2TFLFJL6EESQNAP5X5/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMSSWBHINIX4WE6UDXWM66L7JYEK6XS6/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VZV5YZZ5766UIG2TFLFJL6EESQNAP5X5/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10190cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Knot-Resolver-privilege-escalation-via-DNSSEC-Validation-Bypass-29825cnnvd
- https://www.knot-resolver.cz/2019-07-10-knot-resolver-4.1.0.htmlcnnvd
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