CVE-2021-40083

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Knot Resolver before 5.3.2 is prone to an assertion failure, triggerable by a remote attacker in an edge case (NSEC3 with too many iterations used for a positive wildcard proof).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-617

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 25, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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