Powerdns
42 known vulnerabilities
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Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG
Insufficient Validation of Autoprimary SOA Queries
Insufficient Validation of Names During AXFR
Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests
An operator allowed to use the REST API can cause the Authoritative server to produce invalid HTTPS or SVCB record data,
A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondar
Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domai
An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes sai
A rogue backend can send a crafted UDP response with a query ID off by one related to the maximum configured value, trig
A rogue backend can send a crafted SVCB response to a Discovery of Designated Resolvers request, when requested via eith
A cached crafted response can cause an out-of-bounds read if custom Lua code calls getDomainListByAddress() or getAddres
PRSD detection denial of service
A client might theoretically be able to cause a mismatch between queries sent to a backend and the received responses by
A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of errors responses over a single DoQ and DoH3 conn
A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of queries that are routed to an overloaded DoH bac
A client can trigger a divide by zero error leading to crash by sending a crafted DNSCrypt query.
An attacker can create a large number of concurrent DoQ or DoH3 connections, causing unlimited memory allocation in DNSd
If you use the zoneToCache function with a malicious authoritative server, an attacker can send a zone that result in a
An RPZ sent by a malicious authoritative server can result in a null pointer dereference, caused by a missing consistenc
An attacker can send replies that result in a null pointer dereference, caused by a missing consistency check and leadin
A zone transition from NSEC to NSEC3 might trigger an internal inconsistency and cause a denial of service.
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a deni
Having many concurrent transfers of the same RPZ can lead to inconsistent RPZ data, use after free and/or a crash of the
By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressi
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a deni
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a deni
An attacker might be able to trigger a use-after-free by sending crafted DNS queries to a DNSdist using the DNSQuestion:
An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds write by sending crafted DNS responses to a DNSdist using the DNSQ
An attacker might be able to trick DNSdist into allocating too much memory while processing DNS over QUIC or DNS over HT
When the early_acl_drop (earlyACLDrop in Lua) option is disabled (default is enabled) on a DNS over HTTPs frontend using
An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds read by sending a crafted DNS response packet, when custom Lua cod
When the internal webserver is enabled (default is disabled), an attacker might be able to trick an administrator logged
An attacker might be able to inject HTML content into the internal web dashboard by sending crafted DNS queries to a DNS
Crafted zones can lead to increased incoming network traffic.
Crafted zones can lead to increased resource usage and crafted CNAME chains can lead to cache poisoning in Recursor.
Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.
Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many CVEs affect Powerdns?
Powerdns has 42 CVE records in our database, including 0 critical and 4 high severity vulnerabilities.
What are the most severe Powerdns vulnerabilities?
Powerdns has 0 critical severity (CVSS 9.0+) and 4 high severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9) vulnerabilities. Review the list above sorted by publication date to find the most recent high-severity issues.
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