CVE-2025-30195
A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Apr 7, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 7, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 18, 2025
Description
An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses and crash of the Recursor, causing a denial of service.
The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 5.2.1 version.
We would like to thank Volodymyr Ilyin for bringing this issue to our attention.
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-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
RecursorPowerDNS |
|
References
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