Known Vulnerabilities for products from PowerDNS

Listed below are 20 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with the vendor "PowerDNS".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed vendor information are still displayed.

Data on known vulnerable products is also displayed based on information from known CPEs, each product links to its respective vulnerability page.

Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2026-33610 json Not Provided 2026-04-22 2026-04-22
CVE-2026-27854 json An attacker might be able to trigger a use-after-free by sending crafted DNS queries to a DNSdist using the DNSQuestion:getED... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-27853 json An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds write by sending crafted DNS responses to a DNSdist using the DNSQuesti... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-24030 json An attacker might be able to trick DNSdist into allocating too much memory while processing DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 ... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-24029 json When the early_acl_drop (earlyACLDrop in Lua) option is disabled (default is enabled) on a DNS over HTTPs frontend using the ... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-24028 json An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds read by sending a crafted DNS response packet, when custom Lua code use... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-24027 json Crafted zones can lead to increased incoming network traffic. Not Provided 2026-02-09 2026-04-20
CVE-2026-0398 json Crafted zones can lead to increased resource usage and crafted CNAME chains can lead to cache poisoning in Recursor. Not Provided 2026-02-09 2026-04-20
CVE-2026-0397 json When the internal webserver is enabled (default is disabled), an attacker might be able to trick an administrator logged to t... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-14
CVE-2026-0396 json An attacker might be able to inject HTML content into the internal web dashboard by sending crafted DNS queries to a DNSdist ... Not Provided 2026-03-31 2026-04-13
CVE-2025-59024 json Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor. Not Provided 2026-02-09 2026-04-20
CVE-2025-59023 json Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor. Not Provided 2026-02-09 2026-04-20
CVE-2023-26437 json Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects... 5.3 - MEDIUM 2023-04-04 2023-04-15
CVE-2023-22617 json A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS reco... 7.5 - HIGH 2023-01-21 2023-01-31
CVE-2022-37428 json PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a T... 6.5 - MEDIUM 2022-08-23 2023-11-07
CVE-2022-27227 json In PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.4.3, 4.5.x before 4.5.4, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1 and PowerDNS Recursor before 4.4.8,... 7.5 - HIGH 2022-03-25 2023-11-07
CVE-2021-36754 json PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535... 7.5 - HIGH 2021-07-30 2021-08-07
CVE-2020-25829 json An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.1.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.5, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. A remote attacker can... 7.5 - HIGH 2020-10-16 2022-06-15
CVE-2020-24698 json An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauth... 9.8 - CRITICAL 2020-10-02 2020-10-08
CVE-2020-24697 json An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauth... 7.5 - HIGH 2020-10-02 2020-10-08

Known software with vulnerabilities from PowerDNS

Type Vendor Product Version
ApplicationPowerdnsAuthoritative1.0.0
ApplicationPowerdnsAuthoritative Server2.9.22
ApplicationPowerdnsDnsdist1.0.0
ApplicationPowerdnsPdns4.0.0
ApplicationPowerdnsRecursor3.0