CVE-2024-25638

Publication date 22 July 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

dnsjava is an implementation of DNS in Java. Records in DNS replies are not checked for their relevance to the query, allowing an attacker to respond with RRs from different zones. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0.

Why is this CVE low priority?

It requires privilege of the system.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dnsjava	26.04 LTS resolute	Needs evaluation
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.9 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.9 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L