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TI-2024-16818 Aliases CVE-2024-25590GHSA-pvmx-j29h-323g

Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor

Priority LOW 34CWE-20Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Repeatedly processing and caching results for these sets can lead to a denial of service.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00698 53rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Recursor (PowerDNS): 4.9.9, 5.0.9, 5.1.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
PowerDNSRecursorbefore 4.9.9; 5.0.0 to before 5.0.9; 5.1.0 to before 5.1.24.9.9, 5.0.9, 5.1.2Patch availableCNA
  • Recursor VendorPowerDNS Affected before 4.9.9; 5.0.0 to before 5.0.9; 5.1.0 to before 5.1.2 Fixed in 4.9.9, 5.0.9, 5.1.2 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——PowerDNS
  • cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·PowerDNS

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Recursor (PowerDNS) Fixed in 4.9.9, 5.0.9, 5.1.2

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-25590
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pvmx-j29h-323g

References

Other 1

  • TI-2023-27571 Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-27773 The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-01678 The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2021-14878 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2016-04703 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-12065 Out-of-bounds read in [UNKNOWN] pdns-recursor CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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