CVE-2025-30195

Published: Apr 7, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: security@open-xchange.com (Secondary)

Description

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (2)

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-01.html

Source: security@open-xchange.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/1

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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