Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5311

Title: Powerdns Authoritative Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5311.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 17, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

67.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5311: PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and server crash) via crafted query packets.

Impacted Vendors

powerdns 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171865.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171976.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172193.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/09/3 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034098 https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-03/ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171865.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171976.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172193.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/09/3 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034098 https://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-03/

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-2015-5311 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 17, 2015 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.