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CVE-2020-12662 (GCVE-0-2020-12662)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-19 13:50 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
Summary
Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.
CWE
  • n/a
References
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      "title": "Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume aka an \"NXNSAttack\" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.",
      "url": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/csaf/vex/2020/msrc_cve-2020-12662.json",
      "version": "2"
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      "id": "CVE-2020-12662",
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      "product_status:fixed": "280",
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      "version": "3"
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      "cve": "CVE-2020-12662",
      "id": "CVE-2020-12662",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T03:58:51Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "25",
      "product_status:recommended": "215",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2020-12662",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2020-12662.json",
      "version": "24"
    }
  }
}



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