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CVE-2019-25031 (GCVE-0-2019-25031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-27 05:18 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:00 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Unbound before 1.9.5 allows configuration injection in create_unbound_ad_servers.sh upon a successful man-in-the-middle attack against a cleartext HTTP session. NOTE: The vendor does not consider this a vulnerability of the Unbound software. create_unbound_ad_servers.sh is a contributed script from the community that facilitates automatic configuration creation. It is not part of the Unbound installation
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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