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CVE-2020-25829

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 6.54%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-10-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-25829
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.54%

Original NVD Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.1.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.5, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. A remote attacker can cause the cached records for a given name to be updated to the Bogus DNSSEC validation state, instead of their actual DNSSEC Secure state, via a DNS ANY query. This results in a denial of service for installation that always validate (dnssec=validate), and for clients requesting validation when on-demand validation is enabled (dnssec=process).