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authoritative

Vendor: Powerdns • 31 CVEs

CVEs (31)

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1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jul 23, 2026
May 21, 2026
N/A· v4
6.5 MEDIUM· v3
N/A· v2
Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jul 23, 2026
May 21, 2026
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jul 23, 2026
May 21, 2026
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
Insufficient Validation of Autoprimary SOA Queries
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jul 23, 2026
May 21, 2026
N/A· v4
8.6 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
Insufficient Validation of Names During AXFR
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jul 23, 2026
May 21, 2026
N/A· v4
4.8 MEDIUM· v3
N/A· v2
Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
4.9 MEDIUM· v3
N/A· v2
An operator allowed to use the REST API can cause the Authoritative server to produce invalid HTTPS or SVCB record data, which can in turn cause LMDB database corruption, if using the LMDB backend.
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
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.
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
6.5 MEDIUM· v3
N/A· v2
Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domain subtrees.
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
9.8 CRITICAL· v3
N/A· v2
An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to ru...Show more
An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to run on the next restart, requiring manual operation to fix it.Show less
1Powerdns
3Authoritative
DnsdistRecursor
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
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.
1Powerdns
3Authoritative
DnsdistRecursor
Jun 17, 2026
Apr 22, 2026
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
N/A· v2
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.
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Oct 2, 2020
N/A· v4
9.8 CRITICAL· v3
6.8 MEDIUM· v2
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitra...Show more
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitrary code execution. by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.Show less
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Oct 2, 2020
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
4.3 MEDIUM· v2
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG sig...Show more
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.Show less
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Oct 2, 2020
N/A· v4
8.1 HIGH· v3
5.1 MEDIUM· v2
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code...Show more
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code execution, by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.Show less
1Powerdns
1Authoritative
Jun 17, 2026
Oct 2, 2020
N/A· v4
4.3 MEDIUM· v3
4.0 MEDIUM· v2
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.
2Debian
Powerdns
2Authoritative
Debian Linux
Nov 21, 2024
Jan 15, 2020
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
5.0 MEDIUM· v2
The DNS packet parsing/generation code in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.x before 3.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted query packets.
2Opensuse
Powerdns
3Authoritative
BackportsLeap
Jun 17, 2026
Jul 30, 2019
N/A· v4
4.3 MEDIUM· v3
4.0 MEDIUM· v2
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 s...Show more
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 servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.Show less
2Opensuse
Powerdns
2Authoritative
Leap
Jun 17, 2026
Jul 30, 2019
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
5.0 MEDIUM· v2
A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their contro...Show more
A vulnerability has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before versions 4.1.10, 4.0.8 allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control. The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.Show less
1Powerdns
2Authoritative
Recursor
Nov 21, 2024
Nov 29, 2018
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
5.0 MEDIUM· v2
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can lead to denial of service.
1Powerdns
2Authoritative
Recursor
Nov 21, 2024
Nov 29, 2018
N/A· v4
7.5 HIGH· v3
5.0 MEDIUM· v2
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...Show more
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.Show less