LOW 3.7 Microsoft

CVE-2020-25685

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query dnsmasq checks in forward.c:reply_query() which is the forwarded query that matches the reply by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSSEC SHA-1 when it is) this flaw allows an off-path attacker to find several different domains all having the same hash substantially reducing the number of attempts they would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This is in contrast with RFC5452 which specifies that the query name is one of the attributes of a query that must be used to match a reply. This flaw could be abused to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25684 the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Jan: A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query dnsmasq checks in forward.c:reply_query() which is the forwarded query that matches the reply by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSSEC SHA-1 when it is) this flaw allows an off-path attacker to find several different domains all having the same hash substantially reducing the number of attempts they would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This is in contrast with RFC5452 which specifies that the query name is one of the attributes of a query that must be used to match a reply. This flaw could be abused to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25684 the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

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Published: 2021-01-12 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-07
This low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.7 was published on 2021-01-12 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 dnsmasq 2.85-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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