A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: isc

Published: 2020-05-19T14:05:15.798991Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:55:28.601Z

Reserved: 2020-02-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-8616

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-05-19T14:15:11.877

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:26:38.287

Link: CVE-2020-8616

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2020-05-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-8616 - Bugzilla