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Vulnerabilities

PowerDNS Authoritative any version

Ranked by severity, then by exploit likelihood. Click a CVE ID for its full record.

29CVEs
CVE-2020-24698
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.
Published 2020-10-02 · Modified
9.8EPSS 0.032
CVE-2026-33608
Incomplete domain name sanitization during
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
9.8EPSS 0.006
CVE-2026-42000
Insufficient Validation of Names During AXFR
Published 2026-05-21 · Analyzed
8.6EPSS 0.005
CVE-2020-24696
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.
Published 2020-10-02 · Modified
8.1EPSS 0.014
CVE-2015-5470
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor before 3.6.4 and 3.7.x before 3.7.3 and Authoritative (Auth) Server before 3.3.3 and 3.4.x before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a long name that refers to itself. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1868.
Published 2015-11-02 · Modified
7.8EPSS 0.113
CVE-2016-7068
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 3.7.4 and 4.0.4, allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause an abnormal CPU usage load on the PowerDNS server by sending crafted DNS queries, which might result in a partial denial of service if the system becomes overloaded. This issue is based on the fact that the PowerDNS server parses all records present in a query regardless of whether they are needed or even legitimate. A specially crafted query containing a large number of records can be used to take advantage of that behaviour.
Published 2018-09-11 · Modified
7.8EPSS 0.073
CVE-2016-5427
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . (dot) inside labels, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a crafted DNS query.
Published 2016-09-21 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.630
CVE-2016-5426
PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (backend CPU consumption) via a long qname.
Published 2016-09-21 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.306
CVE-2015-5230
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.
Published 2020-01-15 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.090
CVE-2016-7072
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2 allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a large number of TCP connections to the web server. If the web server runs out of file descriptors, it triggers an exception and terminates the whole PowerDNS process. While it's more complicated for an unauthorized attacker to make the web server run out of file descriptors since its connection will be closed just after being accepted, it might still be possible.
Published 2018-09-10 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.063
CVE-2018-10851
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.
Published 2018-11-29 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.060
CVE-2020-24697
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.
Published 2020-10-02 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.044
CVE-2018-14626
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.
Published 2018-11-29 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.027
CVE-2016-2120
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions up to and including 3.4.10, 4.0.1 allowing an authorized user to crash the server by inserting a specially crafted record in a zone under their control then sending a DNS query for that record. The issue is due to an integer overflow when checking if the content of the record matches the expected size, allowing an attacker to cause a read past the buffer boundary.
Published 2018-11-01 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.020
CVE-2019-10162
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.
Published 2019-07-30 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.017
CVE-2026-33257
Insufficient input validation of internal webserver
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
7.5EPSS 0.011
CVE-2026-33260
Insufficient input validation of internal webserver
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
7.5EPSS 0.011
CVE-2026-42001
Insufficient Validation of Autoprimary SOA Queries
Published 2026-05-21 · Analyzed
7.5EPSS 0.008
CVE-2026-33610
Possible file descriptor exhaustion in forward-dnsupdate
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
7.5EPSS 0.007
CVE-2026-42002
Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG
Published 2026-05-21 · Analyzed
7.5EPSS 0.006
CVE-2017-15091
An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are still allowed even though the API has been configured as read-only via the api-readonly keyword. This missing check allows an attacker with valid API credentials to flush the cache, trigger a zone transfer or send a NOTIFY.
Published 2018-01-23 · Modified
7.1EPSS 0.012
CVE-2026-33611
Insufficient validation of HTTPS and SVCB records
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
6.5EPSS 0.008
CVE-2026-42396
Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
Published 2026-05-21 · Analyzed
6.5EPSS 0.008
CVE-2026-33609
LDAP DN injection
Published 2026-04-22 · Analyzed
6.5EPSS 0.005
CVE-2016-7073
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check of the TSIG time and fudge values was found in AXFRRetriever, leading to a possible replay attack.
Published 2018-09-11 · Modified
5.9EPSS 0.012
CVE-2016-7074
An issue has been found in PowerDNS before 3.4.11 and 4.0.2, and PowerDNS recursor before 4.0.4, allowing an attacker in position of man-in-the-middle to alter the content of an AXFR because of insufficient validation of TSIG signatures. A missing check that the TSIG record is the last one, leading to the possibility of parsing records that are not covered by the TSIG signature.
Published 2018-09-11 · Modified
5.9EPSS 0.012
CVE-2026-41999
Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests
Published 2026-05-21 · Analyzed
4.8EPSS 0.002
CVE-2020-17482
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.
Published 2020-10-02 · Modified
4.3EPSS 0.026
CVE-2019-10163
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.
Published 2019-07-30 · Modified
4.3EPSS 0.010