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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
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 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
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 40

By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.00583 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.4.1, 5.3.6 +1 CWE-770
Priority MEDIUM 40

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 0.00606 Published 2026-04-22 Fixed in 5.4.1, 5.3.6 +1 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 0.00524 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
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