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authoritative

Vendor: powerdns

Actively Exploited 0 CISA KEV List
PoC / Exploits 0 Code Available
Total RCEs 5 Remote Access
Total CVEs 50 Total Indexed
Avg. EPSS 9.98% Exploit Prob.
Latest CVE CVE-2026-42396 May 21

Security Vulnerability Index

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4.9 CVSS

Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail

EPSS: 0.35%
5.9 CVSS

Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIG

EPSS: 0.26%
7.5 CVSS

Insufficient Validation of Autoprimary SOA Queries

EPSS: 0.37%
6.8 CVSS

Insufficient Validation of Names During AXFR

EPSS: 0.24%
4.8 CVSS

Incorrect Behaviour of Views with TCP PROXY Requests

EPSS: 0.14%
6.5 CVSS

An operator allowed to use the REST API can cause the Authoritative server to produce invalid HTTPS or SVCB record data, which can in turn cause LMDB database corruption, if using the LMDB backend.

EPSS: 0.42%
5.9 CVSS

A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.

EPSS: 0.39%
5.3 CVSS

Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domain subtrees.

EPSS: 0.24%
7.4 CVSS

An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to run on the next restart, requiring manual operation to fix it.

EPSS: 0.38%
5.3 CVSS

An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default.

EPSS: 0.52%