CVE-2014-7210

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-276

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Debian pdns: before 3.3.1-1 — fixed in 3.3.1-1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Debian pdns 3.3.1-1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/05/msg00046.html
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pdns/-/commit/f0de6b3583039bb63344fbd5eb246939264d7b05

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