CVE-2019-10190 Security feature bypass in knot-resolver
Remote attackers can bypass DNSSEC validation for non-existence answers, allowing clients to receive unverified NXDOMAIN responses instead of errors.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-10190?
CVE-2019-10190 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 16 Jul 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10190?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Nic Knot Resolver.
How do I fix CVE-2019-10190?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2019-10190 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10190 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10190, GHSA-5pqr-9wpj-5m82, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10190.