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Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-03-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Thomas Claburn

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The article contrasts two DNSSEC vulnerabilities—KeyTrap (CVE-2023-50387), which ATHENE research indicates can produce extreme CPU exhaustion and enable large-scale DNS resolver denial-of-service, and NSEC3-encloser (CVE-2023-50868), which appears orders of magnitude less severe—while raising concerns about MITRE/NIST CVE descriptions and the accuracy of CVSS scoring.

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