CVE-2020-8616 Information

Description

A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can through the use of specially crafted referrals cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html http://www.nxnsattack.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/19/4 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8616 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00031.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JKJXVBOKZ36ER3EUCR7VRB7WGHIIMPNJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOGCJS2XQ3SQNF4W6GLZ73LWZJ6ZZWZI/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200522-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4689 https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_12

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.6