CVE-2025-59030: Powerdns Recursor

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker can trigger the removal of cached records by sending a NOTIFY query over TCP.

Affected products

• Powerdns Recursor: from 5.1.0, before 5.1.9 (fixed in 5.1.9); from 5.2.0, before 5.2.7 (fixed in 5.2.7); from 5.3.0, before 5.3.3 (fixed in 5.3.3)

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