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Recursor
by PowerDNS · last CVE Jul 23, 2026
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CVECVSSEPSSPublishedSummary · affected versions
CVE-2020-10030
8.8
24%
May 19
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0
Affected: 4.1.0 through 4.3.0
CVE-2025-59023
8.2
0%
Feb 9
Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor
Affected: 5.3.0 before 5.3.1; 5.2.0 before 5.2.6; 5.1.0 before 5.1.8
CVE-2019-3806
8.1
1%
Jan 29
An 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 specific combination…
Affected: 4.1.4 before 4.1.9
CVE-2026-52688
7.5
0%
Jul 23
RRSIGs with too few labels can lead to bypass of DNSSEC wildcard validation
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.12; 5.3.0 before 5.3.9; 5.4.0 before 5.4.4
CVE-2026-33612
7.5
0%
Jun 25
ZoneToCache can poison the cache
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; 5.3.0 before 5.3.8; 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-33260
7.5
1%
Apr 22
Insufficient input validation of internal webserver
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33258
7.5
1%
Apr 22
Crafted zones can cause increased resource usage
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33257
7.5
1%
Apr 22
Insufficient input validation of internal webserver
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33256
7.5
1%
Apr 22
Unbounded memory allocation by internal web server
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2025-59030
7.5
1%
Dec 9
Insufficient validation of incoming notifies over TCP can lead to a denial of service in Recursor
Affected: 5.3.0 before 5.3.3; 5.2.0 before 5.2.7; 5.1.0 before 5.1.9
CVE-2023-50868
7.5
74%
Feb 14
The 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 consumption for…
Affected: before 4.8.5; 4.9.0 before 4.9.3; 5.0.0 before 5.0.2
CVE-2023-50387
7.5
100%
Feb 14
Certain 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 consumption) via one or more…
Affected: 4.8.0 before 4.8.6; 4.9.0 before 4.9.3; 5.0.0 before 5.0.2
CVE-2023-22617
7.5
7%
Jan 21
A 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, because QName…
Affected: 4.8.0
CVE-2022-27227
7.5
5%
Mar 25
In 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 before 4.6.1,…
Affected: before 4.4.8; 4.5.0 before 4.5.8; 4.6.0 before 4.6.1
CVE-2020-25829
7.5
7%
Oct 16
An 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
Affected: before 4.1.18; 4.2.0 before 4.2.5; 4.3.0 before 4.3.5
CVE-2020-10995
7.5
4%
May 19
PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0 does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks
Affected: 4.1.0 through 4.3.0
CVE-2020-12244
7.5
2%
May 19
An 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 validated in…
Affected: 4.1.0 through 4.3.0
CVE-2018-16855
7.5
59%
Dec 3
An 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 computing the hash of…
Affected: before 4.1.8
CVE-2018-14626
7.5
3%
Nov 29
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can…
Affected: 4.0.0 through 4.1.4
CVE-2018-10851
7.5
6%
Nov 29
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while…
Affected: 3.2 through 4.1.4
CVE-2016-7068
7.5
7%
Sep 11
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU…
Affected: before 3.7.4; 4.0.0 before 4.0.4
CVE-2017-15120
7.5
51%
Jul 27
An 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 specially crafted answer…
Affected: before 4.0.8
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