CVE-2025-30195

7.5 highEPSS 0.8%

High (7.5). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker can publish a zone containing specific Resource Record Sets. Processing and caching results for these sets can lead to an illegal memory accesses and crash of the Recursor, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 5.2.1 version. We would like to thank Volodymyr Ilyin for bringing this issue to our attention.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2025-04-07
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-01.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/1

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