CVE-2024-25590
Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor
Severity Score
7.5
*CVSS v3.1
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
0
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*KEV
Decision
Track
*SSVC
Descriptions
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.
Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that too permissive parsing of some resource record sets in the zone file parsing of PDNS Recursor could result in denial of service.
*Credits:
Toshifumi Sakaguchi
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:Track
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2024-02-08 CVE Reserved
- 2024-10-03 CVE Published
- 2024-10-03 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CAPEC
- CAPEC-130: Excessive Allocation
References (1)
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| https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-04.html |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| PowerDNS Search vendor "PowerDNS" | Recursor Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" | < 4.9.9 Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" and version " < 4.9.9" | en |
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| PowerDNS Search vendor "PowerDNS" | Recursor Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" | >= 5.0.0 < 5.0.9 Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" and version " >= 5.0.0 < 5.0.9" | en |
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| PowerDNS Search vendor "PowerDNS" | Recursor Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" | >= 5.1.0 < 5.1.2 Search vendor "PowerDNS" for product "Recursor" and version " >= 5.1.0 < 5.1.2" | en |
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