CVE-2025-59029: Powerdns Recursor

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker can trigger an assertion failure by requesting crafted DNS records, waiting for them to be inserted into the records cache, then send a query with qtype set to ANY.

Affected products

• Powerdns Recursor: version 5.3.0 only; version 5.3.1 only

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-10-07.