Authoritative
by PowerDNS
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CVEs (39)
| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-10851 | Med | 0.35 | 5.3 | 0.06 | Nov 29, 2018 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service. | ||
| CVE-2026-33260 | Med | 0.34 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Apr 22, 2026 | An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default. | ||
| CVE-2026-33257 | Med | 0.34 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Apr 22, 2026 | An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default. | ||
| CVE-2026-42396 | Med | 0.32 | 4.9 | 0.00 | May 21, 2026 | Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail | ||
| CVE-2026-41999 | Med | 0.31 | 4.8 | 0.00 | May 21, 2026 | Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests | ||
| CVE-2026-33610 | Med | 0.31 | 5.9 | 0.00 | Apr 22, 2026 | A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it. | ||
| CVE-2020-17482 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.03 | Oct 2, 2020 | An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.3.1 where an authorized user with the ability to insert crafted records into a zone might be able to leak the content of uninitialized memory. | ||
| CVE-2019-10203 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.02 | Nov 22, 2019 | PowerDNS Authoritative daemon , pdns versions 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x before 4.1.11, exiting when encountering a serial between 2^31 and 2^32-1 while trying to notify a slave leads to DoS. | ||
| CVE-2019-10163 | Med | 0.28 | 4.3 | 0.01 | Jul 30, 2019 | A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only… | ||
| CVE-2016-7074 | Med | 0.28 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Sep 11, 2018 | An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check that the TSIG record is… | ||
| CVE-2016-7073 | Med | 0.28 | 5.3 | 0.01 | Sep 11, 2018 | An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check of the TSIG time and… | ||
| CVE-2016-7068 | Med | 0.28 | 5.3 | 0.07 | Sep 11, 2018 | An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending crafted DNS queries, which might result in a partial… | ||
| CVE-2016-7072 | Med | 0.28 | 5.3 | 0.06 | Sep 10, 2018 | An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers… | ||
| CVE-2026-33609 | Med | 0.27 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Apr 22, 2026 | Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domain subtrees. | ||
| CVE-2015-1868 | 0.07 | — | 0.82 | May 18, 2015 | The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a… | |||
| CVE-2015-5311 | 0.05 | — | 0.67 | Nov 17, 2015 | PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and server crash) via crafted query packets. | |||
| CVE-2015-5470 | 0.01 | — | 0.11 | Nov 2, 2015 | The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that… | |||
| CVE-2012-0206 | 0.00 | — | 0.05 | Feb 17, 2012 | common_startup.cc in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 2.9.22.5 and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet loop) via a crafted UDP DNS response. | |||
| CVE-2008-3337 | 0.00 | — | 0.06 | Aug 8, 2008 | PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217. |
- risk 0.35cvss 5.3epss 0.06
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service.
- risk 0.34cvss 5.3epss 0.01
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default.
- risk 0.34cvss 5.3epss 0.01
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default.
- risk 0.32cvss 4.9epss 0.00
Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
- risk 0.31cvss 4.8epss 0.00
Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests
- risk 0.31cvss 5.9epss 0.00
A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.
- risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.03
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.3.1 where an authorized user with the ability to insert crafted records into a zone might be able to leak the content of uninitialized memory.
- risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.02
PowerDNS Authoritative daemon , pdns versions 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x before 4.1.11, exiting when encountering a serial between 2^31 and 2^32-1 while trying to notify a slave leads to DoS.
- risk 0.28cvss 4.3epss 0.01
A Vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.9, 4.0.8 allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only…
- risk 0.28cvss 5.3epss 0.01
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check that the TSIG record is…
- risk 0.28cvss 5.3epss 0.01
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check of the TSIG time and…
- risk 0.28cvss 5.3epss 0.07
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending crafted DNS queries, which might result in a partial…
- risk 0.28cvss 5.3epss 0.06
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers…
- risk 0.27cvss 5.3epss 0.00
Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domain subtrees.
- CVE-2015-1868May 18, 2015risk 0.07cvss —epss 0.82
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a…
- CVE-2015-5311Nov 17, 2015risk 0.05cvss —epss 0.67
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and server crash) via crafted query packets.
- CVE-2015-5470Nov 2, 2015risk 0.01cvss —epss 0.11
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that…
- CVE-2012-0206Feb 17, 2012risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.05
common_startup.cc in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 2.9.22.5 and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet loop) via a crafted UDP DNS response.
- CVE-2008-3337Aug 8, 2008risk 0.00cvss —epss 0.06
PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different issue than CVE-2008-1447 and CVE-2008-3217.
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