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PowerDNS dnsdist is vulnerable to denial of service attacks due to memory allocation issues caused by crafted DNS queries or connections.

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This thread discusses multiple vulnerabilities in PowerDNS's dnsdist and Authoritative products, including denial of service attacks, memory allocation issues, and configuration corruption. These vulnerabilities highlight security risks in DNS infrastructure, which is critical for internet reliability and security.

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PowerDNS dnsdist is vulnerable to denial of service attacks due to memory allocation issues caused by crafted DNS queries or connections.
Parent: DNS InfrastructureEntity: PowerDNS dnsdistImpact: negativeDate: Apr 22, 2026Target: Security of PowerDNS dnsdist
PowerDNS Authoritative is vulnerable to configuration corruption and denial of service attacks through crafted notify requests or REST API misuse.
Parent: DNS InfrastructureEntity: PowerDNS AuthoritativeImpact: negativeDate: Apr 22, 2026Target: Security of PowerDNS Authoritative
DNS protocols like DoQ and DoH3 can be exploited to cause denial of service attacks if not properly secured.
Parent: CybersecurityEntity: DNS ProtocolsImpact: negativeDate: Apr 22, 2026Target: Security of DNS protocols

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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24945 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 7.4/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: Authoritative, Authoritative ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ 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 re... ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24945 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24931 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of queries that are routed to an overloaded DoH backend, causing queries to accumulate into a buffer that will not be released until the end of the connection. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24931 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24929 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 7.5/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A client can trigger a divide by zero error leading to crash by sending a crafted DNSCrypt query. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24929 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24933 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of errors responses over a single DoQ and DoH3 connection, as some resources were not properly released until the end of the connection. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24933 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24943 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 6.5/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A rogue backend can send a crafted UDP response with a query ID off by one related to the maximum configured value, triggering an out-of-bounds write leading to a denial of service. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24943 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24935 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.1/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A client might theoretically be able to cause a mismatch between queries sent to a backend and the received responses by sending a flood of perfectly timed queries that are routed to a TCP-only or DNS over TLS backend. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24935 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24937 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.7/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ PRSD detection denial of service ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24937 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24941 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 3.1/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A rogue backend can send a crafted SVCB response to a Discovery of Designated Resolvers request, when requested via either the autoUpgrade (Lua) option to newServer or auto_upgrade (YAML) settings. DDR upgrade is not enabled by default. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24941 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24939 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 4.8/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ A cached crafted response can cause an out-of-bounds read if custom Lua code calls getDomainListByAddress() or getAddressListByDomain() on a packet cache. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24939 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24927 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: dnsdist, dnsdist ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ An attacker can create a large number of concurrent DoQ or DoH3 connections, causing unlimited memory allocation in DNSdist and leading to a denial of service. DOQ and DoH3 are disabled by default. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24927 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24951 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 6.5/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: Authoritative, Authoritative ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ 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. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24951 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24947 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.3/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: Authoritative, Authoritative ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ Incomplete escaping of LDAP queries when running with 8bit-dns enabled allows users to perform queries of internal domain subtrees. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24947 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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๐Ÿšจ EUVD-2026-24949 ๐Ÿ“Š Score: 5.9/10 (CVSS v3.1) ๐Ÿ“ฆ Product: Authoritative, Authoritative ๐Ÿข Vendor: PowerDNS ๐Ÿ“… Updated: 2026-04-22 ๐Ÿ“ 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. ๐Ÿ”— https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-24949 #cybersecurity #infosec #euvd #cve #vulnerability
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