CVE-2025-59023 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

PowerDNS

Recursor

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`5.3.0`	affected	< 5.3.1
`5.2.0`	affected	< 5.2.6
`5.1.0`	affected	< 5.1.8

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Project Subscriptions

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-6045-1	pdns-recursor security update

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-06.html

History

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor.
Title		Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor
References		https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-06.html
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published: 2026-02-09T14:44:19.331Z

Updated: 2026-02-09T16:17:46.019Z

Reserved: 2025-09-08T14:22:28.104Z

Link: CVE-2025-59023

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-09T16:17:30.347Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-02-09T15:16:10.817

Modified: 2026-02-09T16:08:35.290

Link: CVE-2025-59023

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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