CVE-2025-30195 (GCVE-0-2025-30195)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-07 13:24 – Updated: 2025-04-07 16:03
VLAI
Title
A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor
Summary
An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses and crash of the Recursor, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 5.2.1 version. We would like to thank Volodymyr Ilyin for bringing this issue to our attention.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-07 14:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PowerDNS Recursor Affected: 5.2.0
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Date Public
2025-04-07 12:53
Credits
Volodymyr Ilyin
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