Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2020-25685

Disclosure Date: January 20, 2021
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Description

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in forward.c:reply_query(), which is the forwarded query that matches the reply, by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSSEC, SHA-1 when it is) this flaw allows an off-path attacker to find several different domains all having the same hash, substantially reducing the number of attempts they would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This is in contrast with RFC5452, which specifies that the query name is one of the attributes of a query that must be used to match a reply. This flaw could be abused to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25684 the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
3.7 Low
Impact Score:
1.4
Exploitability Score:
2.2
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
Low
Availability (A):
None

General Information

Vendors

  • arista,
  • debian,
  • fedoraproject,
  • thekelleys

Products

  • debian linux 10.0,
  • dnsmasq,
  • eos,
  • fedora 32,
  • fedora 33
Technical Analysis