nrkno terraform-provider-windns up to 1.0.4 windns_record command injection

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in nrkno terraform-provider-windns up to 1.0.4. Affected is the function windns_record. Performing a manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-46735. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in nrkno terraform-provider-windns up to 1.0.4. This affects the function windns_record. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Terraform WinDNS Provider allows users to manage their Windows DNS server resources through Terraform. A security issue has been found in Terraform WinDNS Provider before version `1.0.5`. The `windns_record` resource did not sanitize the input variables. This could lead to authenticated command injection in the underlyding powershell command prompt. Version 1.0.5 contains a fix for the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-46735 since 04/28/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.0.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch c76f69610c1b502f90aaed8c4f102194530b5bce is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• nrkno

Name

• terraform-provider-windns

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/nrkno/terraform-provider-windns/

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