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CVE-2024-25590 (GCVE-0-2024-25590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-03 15:29 – Updated: 2024-10-03 18:03
VLAI
Title
Crafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the Recursor
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-03 17:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PowerDNS Recursor Affected: 0 , < 4.9.9 (semver)
Affected: 5.0.0 , < 5.0.9 (semver)
Affected: 5.1.0 , < 5.1.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2024-10-03 10:51
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