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CVE-2021-40083
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-25T01:15:11.087 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:06:29.363

Summary

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).

Affected products

nic — knot_resolver

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References

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