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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
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

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
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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.06041 Published 2018-11-29 No fix listed CWE-400
Priority MEDIUM 42

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server.

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.0615 Published 2018-09-10 No fix listed CWE-20
Priority LOW 39

An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00524 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.0.4, 4.9.14 +5 CWE-770
Priority LOW 39

An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00514 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.0.4, 4.9.14 +5 CWE-770
Priority LOW 38

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can lead to denial of service.

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.02721 Published 2018-11-29 No fix listed CWE-400
TI-2016-01944 CVE-2016-2120 · GHSA-mq8j-4764-x4h8

Integer overflow in [UNKNOWN] pdns

Priority LOW 37

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control th…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01997 Published 2018-11-01 No fix listed CWE-190
Priority LOW 36

A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their contro…

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.01691 Published 2019-07-30 No fix listed CWE-400
Priority LOW 34

An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are still allo…

CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.1 Network Low privileges No interaction EPSS 0.01242 Published 2018-01-23 No fix listed CWE-863
Priority LOW 33

A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00393 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.0.4, 4.9.14 CWE-400
TI-2026-30391 CVE-2026-42002 · GHSA-vx6m-m9qv-88q3

Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG

Priority LOW 32

Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00264 Published 2026-05-21 Fixed in 4.9.15, 5.0.5 CWE-364
Priority LOW 29

An operator allowed to use the REST API can cause the Authoritative server to produce invalid HTTPS or SVCB record data, which can in turn cause LMDB database corruption, if using the LMDB backend.

CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5 Network High privileges No interaction EPSS 0.00423 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.0.4, 4.9.14 CWE-190
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