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Fencer Vulns
low 2.1

CVE-2005-2302 json

PowerDNS before 2.9.18, when allowing recursion to a restricted range of IP addresses, does not properly handle questions from clients that…

published 2005-07-19 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2303

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PowerDNS before 2.9.18, when allowing recursion to a restricted range of IP addresses, does not properly handle questions from clients that are denied recursion, which could cause a "blank out" of answers to those clients that are allowed to use recursion.

Patch / fix

  • pdns Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.9.18-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2302

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.