CVE-2025-59029 (GCVE-0-2025-59029)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-09 09:16
Modified
2025-12-09 14:29
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
An attacker can trigger an assertion failure by requesting crafted DNS records, waiting for them to be inserted into the records cache, then send a query with qtype set to ANY.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PowerDNS Recursor Version: 5.3.0   ≤
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