CVE-2024-56946 (GCVE-0-2024-56946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-13 15:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Denial of service in DNS-over-QUIC in Technitium DNS Server <= v13.2.2 allows remote attackers to permanently stop the server from accepting new DNS-over-QUIC connections by triggering unhandled exceptions in listener threads.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-03 20:48 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception
Assigner
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