Description
An attacker might be able to inject HTML content into the internal web dashboard by sending crafted DNS queries to a DNSdist instance where domain-based dynamic rules have been enabled via either DynBlockRulesGroup:setSuffixMatchRule or DynBlockRulesGroup:setSuffixMatchRuleFFI.
Affected products
powerdns: dnsdist
References1
- www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdi… Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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4.3
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 4 · as of 12 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-80
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