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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-4252

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 5.95%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.95%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion and application crash) via a CNAME record with a zero TTL, which triggers an infinite loop.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
5.95% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
powerdns/recursor
Source
security@debian.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.