High severity · published Oct 3, 2024
CVE-2024-25590
Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor
7.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RE
Recursor · PowerDNS
before 4.9.9; 5.0.0 before 5.0.9; 5.1.0 before 5.1.2 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25590
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25590
docs.powerdns.com
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2024-04.html
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/03/3
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