Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2301

Title: PowerDNS before 2.9.18 LDAP injection/DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2301.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 19, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2301: PowerDNS before 2.9.18, when running with an LDAP backend, does not properly escape LDAP queries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (failure to answer ldap questions) and possibly conduct an LDAP injection attack.

Impacted Vendors

powerdns 1

Reference Links

http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-2-9-18 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112155941310297&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014504 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14290 http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-2-9-18 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112155941310297&w=2 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014504 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14290

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2301 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 19, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.