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CVE-2023-50868

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.81729
Risk score
58.61
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2024-02-14
Modified
2025-11-04
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2023-55601, GHSA-PV4H-P8JR-6CV2
Products
n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
euvd EUVD-2023-55601

Description

The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the "NSEC3" issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations.

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