CVE-2025-30192: high-severity vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor
A Recursor configured to send out ECS enabled queries can be sensitive to spoofing attempts
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.3%
An attacker spoofing answers to ECS enabled requests sent out by the Recursor has a chance of success higher than non-ECS enabled queries.
The updated version include various mitigations against spoofing attempts of ECS enabled queries by chaining ECS enabled requests and enforcing stricter validation of the received answers.
The most strict mitigation done when the new setting outgoing.edns_subnet_harden (old style name edns-subnet-harden) is enabled.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
PowerDNS · RecursorRelated CVEs — PowerDNS Recursor
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-25583HIGHCrafted responses can lead to a denial of service in Recursor if recursive forwarding is configuredEPSS 0.8%CVE-2025-30195HIGHA crafted zone can lead to an illegal memory access in the PowerDNS RecursorEPSS 0.8%CVE-2024-25590HIGHCrafted responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies in the RecursorEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-33256MEDIUMUnbounded memory allocation by internal web serverEPSS 0.6%CVE-2023-26437LOWDeterred spoofing attempts can lead to authoritative servers being marked unavailableEPSS 0.6%CVE-2025-59030HIGHInsufficient validation of incoming notifies over TCP can lead to a denial of service in RecursorEPSS 0.6%