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Insufficient Entropy

CVE-2020-25926

High
7.5/10

Summary

The DNS client in InterNiche NicheStack TCP/IP 4.0.1 is affected by: Insufficient entropy in the DNS transaction id. The impact is: DNS cache poisoning (remote). The component is: dns_query_type(). The attack vector is: a specific DNS response packet.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy

The software uses an algorithm or scheme that produces insufficient entropy, leaving patterns or clusters of values that are more likely to occur than others.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published