FKIE_CVE-2014-7210

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-26 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:14
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
pdns specific as packaged in Debian in version before 3.3.1-1 creates a too privileged MySQL user. It was discovered that the maintainer scripts of pdns-backend-mysql grant too wide database permissions for the pdns user. Other backends are not affected.
References
security@debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/05/msg00046.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://salsa.debian.org/debian/pdns/-/commit/f0de6b3583039bb63344fbd5eb246939264d7b05Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian pdns *
debian debian_linux 7.0
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