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Alpine: multiple pdns packages: security update to 4.0.5-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 406234

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and
 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are
 still allowed even though the API has been configured as read-only via the api-readonly keyword. This
 missing check allows an attacker with valid API credentials to flush the cache, trigger a zone transfer or
 send a NOTIFY. (CVE-2017-15091)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-15091

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406234

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15091

BID: 101982