Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2069

Title: Powerdns Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-2069.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Apr 27, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.96%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2069: The recursor in PowerDNS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed EDNS0 packets.

Impacted Vendors

powerdns 1

Reference Links

http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-0-1 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19831 http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17711 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1527 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26100 http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-0-1 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19831 http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17711 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1527 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26100

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-2006-2069 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.

April 27, 2006 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.