Powerdns Recursor

61 CVEs affecting Powerdns Recursor. Latest disclosed: 2026-06-25. Critical: 0, High: 18.

Top CVEs affecting Powerdns Recursor
CVESeverityScorePublishedSummary
CVE-2020-10030High8.82020-05-19An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0. It allows an attacker (with enough privileges to change the system's hostname) to…
CVE-2025-59023High8.22026-02-09Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.
CVE-2019-3806High8.12019-01-29An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions after 4.1.3 before 4.1.9 where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some sp…
CVE-2026-33612High7.52026-06-25A malicious authoritative server can send a crafted zone via the ZoneToCache function that leads to cache poisoning.
CVE-2025-59030High7.52025-12-09An attacker can trigger the removal of cached records by sending a NOTIFY query over TCP.
CVE-2025-30192High7.52025-07-21An attacker spoofing answers to ECS enabled requests sent out by the Recursor has a chance of success higher than non-ECS enabled queries. The updated version…
CVE-2025-30195High7.52025-04-07An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses a…
CVE-2024-25590High7.52024-10-03An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Repeatedly processing and caching results for these sets can lead to a denial of s…
CVE-2024-25583High7.52024-04-25A crafted response from an upstream server the recursor has been configured to forward-recurse to can cause a Denial of Service in the Recursor. The default co…
CVE-2023-50868High7.52024-02-14The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU…
CVE-2023-50387High7.52024-02-14Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumpti…
CVE-2023-22617High7.52023-01-21A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, be…
CVE-2022-27227High7.52022-03-25In PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.4.3, 4.5.x before 4.5.4, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1 and PowerDNS Recursor before 4.4.8, 4.5.x before 4.5.8, and 4.6.x bef…
CVE-2020-25829High7.52020-10-16An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.1.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.5, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. A remote attacker can cause the cached records for a gi…
CVE-2020-10995High7.52020-05-19PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0 does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks. An issue in the DNS protocol has been found…
CVE-2020-12244High7.52020-05-19An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly va…
CVE-2018-16855High7.52018-12-03An 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 co…
CVE-2017-15120High7.52018-07-27An 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 special…
CVE-2025-59024Medium6.52026-02-09Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.
CVE-2022-37428Medium6.52022-08-23PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a deni…