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CVSS high62CVSS 7.0–8.9

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Priority HIGH 74

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to ca…

CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8 Network No auth Interaction — EPSS 0.78725 Published 2015-05-18 No fix listed CWE-399
Priority HIGH 67

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before version 4.1.8 where a remote attacker sending a DNS query can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read while computing the hash of the query for a packet cache lookup, poss…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.58577 Published 2018-12-03 No fix listed CWE-125
Priority MEDIUM 64

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class tha…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.51353 Published 2018-07-27 No fix listed CWE-476
Priority MEDIUM 60

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.2 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service ("performance degradations") via a large or infinite number of referrals, as demonstrated by r…

CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0 Network No auth Interaction — EPSS 0.68875 Published 2014-12-10 No fix listed CWE-399
TI-2019-02881 CVE-2019-3871 · GHSA-mg3r-wf83-7hqh

Improper input validation in PowerDNS pdns

Priority MEDIUM 52

A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7.

CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8 Network Low privileges No interaction EPSS 0.12632 Published 2019-03-21 No fix listed CWE-20
TI-2026-25990 CVE-2026-33608 · GHSA-q6jm-wh7h-j4g3

Incomplete domain name sanitization during

Priority MEDIUM 48

An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to ru…

CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00383 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.0.4, 4.9.14 CWE-94
Priority MEDIUM 47

The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU…

CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8 Network No auth Interaction — EPSS 0.11284 Published 2015-11-02 No fix listed CWE-399
Priority MEDIUM 44

An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds read by sending a crafted DNS response packet, when custom Lua code uses newDNSPacketOverlay to parse DNS packets.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01068 Published 2026-03-31 Fixed in 1.9.12, 2.0.3 CWE-126
Priority MEDIUM 44

The DNS packet parsing/generation code in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.x before 3.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted query packets.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.09021 Published 2020-01-15 Fixed in 3.4.6 CWE-20
TI-2025-21530 CVE-2025-30194 · GHSA-487w-xx5j-gqwc

Denial of service via crafted DoH exchange

Priority MEDIUM 43

When DNSdist is configured to provide DoH via the nghttp2 provider, an attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting a DoH exchange that triggers an illegal memory access (double-free) and crash of DNSdist, causing…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.02289 Published 2025-04-29 Fixed in 1.9.9 CWE-416
Priority MEDIUM 43

An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.07294 Published 2018-09-11 No fix listed CWE-20
Priority MEDIUM 42

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.1.x before 4.1.9 where records in the answer section of responses received from authoritative servers with the AA flag not set were not properly validated, allowing…

CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00368 Published 2019-01-29 Fixed in 4.1.9 CWE-345
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