Is CVE-2024-8418 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-8418 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-05-13.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-8418?

CVE-2024-8418 has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH severity). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

How do I patch CVE-2024-8418?

Patch guidance is available from containers security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2024-8418.

Fix CVE-2024-8418 - HIGH containers aardvark-dns

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2024-8418?

2 products: containers aardvark-dns, containers aardvark-dns.

Description

A flaw was found in Aardvark-dns, which is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to the serial processing of TCP DNS queries. An attacker can exploit this flaw by keeping a TCP connection open indefinitely, causing the server to become unresponsive and resulting in other DNS queries timing out. This issue prevents legitimate users from accessing DNS services, thereby disrupting normal operations and causing service downtime.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector: network
Complexity: low
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high
Weaknesses: CWE-400NVD-CWE-noinfo

Metadata

Primary Vendor: CONTAINERS
Published: 9/4/2024
Last Modified: 5/13/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

CVE-2024-8418

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