CVE-2024-25583

Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service in Recursor if recursive forwarding is configured

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Apr 25, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Feb 8, 2024

Description

A 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 configuration of the Recursor does not use recursive forwarding and is not affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	OX

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
RecursorPowerDNS	4.8.7Affected 4.9.4Affected 5.0.3Affected

References

https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-02.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/24/1

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