CVE-2026-52684: low-severity vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor
Prefetch Feature Allows Persistent Ghost Domain Cache Poisoning Attack
Published
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.7epss 0.2%
If the auth responds very slowly and the records expire in between, the capping of TTLs is not enforced for lack of data. This does not happen on regular resolve as then then the
child records are used immediately if not expired and thus valid, or the
records are expired, and in that case not used. So this case
can only happen if almost expired records are used to refresh the
authoritative NS records.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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%