CVE-2025-59030 (GCVE-0-2025-59030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 09:15 – Updated: 2025-12-09 14:30
VLAI
Title
Insufficient validation of incoming notifies over TCP can lead to a denial of service in Recursor
Summary
An attacker can trigger the removal of cached records by sending a NOTIFY query over TCP.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-09 14:30 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PowerDNS Recursor Affected: 5.3.0 , < 5.3.3 (semver)
Affected: 5.2.0 , < 5.2.7 (semver)
Affected: 5.1.0 , < 5.1.9 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-12-08 10:00
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