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1 vulnerability found for PowerDNS-Admin by PowerDNS-Admin

CVE-2026-119658 (GCVE-0-2026-119658)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-30 14:16
Modified
2026-10-30 16:15
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
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.
Impacted products
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