CVE-2024-25590

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

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Oct 3, 2024
Updated: Oct 3, 2024
Reserved: Feb 8, 2024

Description

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.

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	before 4.9.9Affected 5.0.0 to before 5.0.9Affected 5.1.0 to before 5.1.2Affected

References

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-04.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/03/3

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