Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2302

Title: PowerDNS before 2.9.18 recursion issue affects clients

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2302.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 19, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2302: PowerDNS before 2.9.18, when allowing recursion to a restricted range of IP addresses, does not properly handle questions from clients that are denied recursion, which could cause a "blank out" of answers to those clients that are allowed to use recursion.

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://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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2302 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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.