CVE-2025-30195
published 2025-04-07CVE-2025-30195: 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…
PriorityP338high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.68%
47.8th percentile
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.
Affected
2 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | pdns-recursor | < pdns-recursor 5.2.1-1 (forky) | pdns-recursor 5.2.1-1 (forky) |
| powerdns | recursor | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5LOW
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OSV
CVE-2025-30195: An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets
osv·2025-04-07·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-30195 [HIGH] CVE-2025-30195: An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets
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.
GHSA
GHSA-v9gv-mwp4-wx7g: An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets
ghsa_unreviewed·2025-04-07
CVE-2025-30195 [HIGH] CWE-476 GHSA-v9gv-mwp4-wx7g: An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets
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.
Debian
CVE-2025-30195: pdns-recursor - An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Process...
vendor_debian·2025·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-30195 [HIGH] CVE-2025-30195: pdns-recursor - An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Process...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved
bullseye: resolved
forky: resolved (fixed in 5.2.1-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 5.2.1-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 5.2.1-1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-8]
bugzilla·2025-04-07·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-30195 [HIGH] CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-8]
CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-8]
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357905
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Discussion:
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
Bugzilla
CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-9]
bugzilla·2025-04-07·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2025-30195 [HIGH] CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-9]
CVE-2025-30195 pdns-recursor: A crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS Recursor [epel-9]
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357905
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Discussion:
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
2025-04-07
Published