CVE-2025-30195
A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS 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. 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.
*Credits:
Volodymyr Ilyin
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* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:Track
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2025-03-18 CVE Reserved
- 2025-04-07 CVE Published
- 2025-04-07 CVE Updated
- 2025-04-13 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
CAPEC
References (2)
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| https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-01.html | ||
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/1 |
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