CVE-2024-25590 HIGH

CVE-2024-25590: Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor

Vendor Powerdns
Product Recursor
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published October 3, 2024
Last update October 3, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 3, 2024 CVE published
October 3, 2024 Record updated