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Recursor
by PowerDNS · last CVE Jul 23, 2026
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CVECVSSEPSSPublishedSummary · affected versions
CVE-2025-59024
6.5
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-2022-37428
6.5
1%
Aug 23
PowerDNS 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 denial of service…
Affected: 4.5.0 before 4.5.10; 4.6.0 before 4.6.3; 4.7.0 before 4.7.2
CVE-2017-15092
6.1
2%
Jan 23
A cross-site scripting issue has been found in the web interface of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6, where the qname of DNS queries was displayed without…
Affected: 4.0.0 through 4.0.6
CVE-2026-52690
5.9
0%
Jun 25
Spoofed answers can mark an authoritative non-EDNS capable
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; 5.3.0 before 5.3.8; 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-42388
5.9
0%
Jun 25
Missing input validation for catalog zones
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; 5.3.0 before 5.3.8; 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-42387
5.9
0%
Jun 25
Insufficient input validation in ZoneToCache
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; 5.3.0 before 5.3.8; 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-33262
5.9
0%
Apr 22
Insufficient validation of cookie reply
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33261
5.9
0%
Apr 22
Null pointer accces in aggressive NSEC(3) cache
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2018-14644
5.9
5%
Nov 9
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4
Affected: 4.0.0 through 4.1.4
CVE-2016-7074
5.9
1%
Sep 11
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an…
Affected: before 4.0.4
CVE-2016-7073
5.9
1%
Sep 11
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an…
Affected: before 3.7.4; 4.0.0 before 4.0.4
CVE-2017-15094
5.9
3%
Jan 23
An issue has been found in the DNSSEC parsing code of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.0.6 leading to a memory leak when parsing specially crafted DNSSEC ECDSA…
Affected: 4.0.0 through 4.0.6
CVE-2017-15090
5.9
1%
Jan 23
An issue has been found in the DNSSEC validation component of PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 and up to and including 4.0.6, where the signatures might have been accepted as valid…
Affected: 4.0.0 through 4.0.6
CVE-2026-42389
5.3
0%
Jun 25
Reject more queries with invalid header values
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-42390
5.3
0%
Jun 25
ZONEMD validation can be bypassed
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-40012
5.3
0%
Jun 25
Information about ECS zero scoped answers might leak to clients that use a specific ECS
Affected: 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; 5.3.0 before 5.3.8; 5.4.0 before 5.4.3
CVE-2026-24027
5.3
0%
Feb 9
Crafted zones can lead to increased incoming network traffic
Affected: 5.3.0 before 5.3.5; 5.2.0 before 5.2.8; 5.1.0 before 5.1.10
CVE-2026-0398
5.3
0%
Feb 9
Crafted zones can lead to increased resource usage and crafted CNAME chains can lead to cache poisoning in Recursor
Affected: 5.3.0 before 5.3.5; 5.2.0 before 5.2.8; 5.1.0 before 5.1.10
CVE-2025-59029
5.3
0%
Dec 9
An attacker can trigger an assertion failure by requesting crafted DNS records, waiting for them to be inserted into the records cache, then send a query with qtype set to ANY
Affected: 5.3.0; 5.3.1
CVE-2023-26437
5.3
1%
Apr 4
Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through…
Affected: before 4.6.6; 4.7.0 before 4.7.5; 4.8.0 before 4.8.4
CVE-2020-14196
5.3
2%
Jul 1
In PowerDNS Recursor versions up to and including 4.3.1, 4.2.2 and 4.1.16, the ACL restricting access to the internal web server is not properly enforced
Affected: through 4.1.16; 4.2.0 through 4.2.2; 4.3.0 through 4.3.1
CVE-2017-15093
5.3
1%
Jan 23
When api-config-dir is set to a non-empty value, which is not the case by default, the API in PowerDNS Recursor 4.x up to and including 4.0.6 and 3.x up to and including 3.7.4…
Affected: 3.0 through 3.7.4; 4.0.0 through 4.0.6
CVE-2026-33259
5.0
0%
Apr 22
Concurrent modification of RPZ data can lead to denial of servce
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33601
4.9
1%
Apr 22
Insufficient validation of zonemd record
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
CVE-2026-33600
4.9
1%
Apr 22
Null pointer dereference in RPZ transfer
Affected: 5.4.0 before 5.4.1; 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.2.0 before 5.2.9
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