CVE-2024-25590: Powerdns Recursor

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Powerdns Recursor: before 4.9.9 (fixed in 4.9.9); from 5.0.0, before 5.0.9 (fixed in 5.0.9); from 5.1.0, before 5.1.2 (fixed in 5.1.2)

Published 2024-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.