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CVE-2008-1184

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The DNSSEC validation library (libval) library in dnssec-tools before 1.3.1 does not properly check that the signing key is the APEX trust anchor, which might allow attackers to conduct unspecified attacks.

Affected products

• Dnssec-Tools: through 1.3.1

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/29095
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29127
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=sdlk5lolzj.fsf%40wes.hardakers.net&forum_name=dnssec-tools-users
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27998
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0673/references
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40836
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00820.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00845.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29095
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29127
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=sdlk5lolzj.fsf%40wes.hardakers.net&forum_name=dnssec-tools-users
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27998

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