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CVE-2026-119658

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Description

PowerDNS-Admin through 2026.08.1 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows authenticated User-role accounts to refresh secondary zones they cannot access by supplying a different 'domain' field in the JSON body. Attackers authorized for any one zone can force axfr-retrieve transfers of other users' secondary zones and infer zone existence from differing responses.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.3 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-30 15:16:49.873000
Last modified
2026-10-30 17:17:21.310000
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  "id": "CVE-2026-119658",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-30T15:16:49.873",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-30T17:17:21.310",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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    }
  ],
  "affected": [
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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          "repo": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin",
          "versions": [
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              "lessThanOrEqual": "2026.08.1",
              "versionType": "custom",
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            }
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          "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED",
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      "type": "Secondary",
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin/blob/v2026.08.1/powerdnsadmin/models/domain.py#L702-L730",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin/blob/v2026.08.1/powerdnsadmin/routes/domain.py#L738-L766",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin/issues/1940",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin/pull/1942",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/powerdns-admin-record-update-body-domain-override-cross-zone-idor",
      "source": "[email protected]"
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