Medium 6.5Published Feb 9, 2026

CVE-2025-59024Crafted delegations or IP fragments can poison cached delegations in Recursor

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 30, 2026, 5:30 AM ET)

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

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: OX
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Feb 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

PowerDNS Recursor powerdns:recursor (from the name)	from 5.3.0 before 5.3.1; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.6; from 5.1.0 before 5.1.8	CNA record
powerdns recursor powerdns:recursor	from 5.1.0 before 5.1.8; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.6; from 5.3.0 before 5.3.1	NVD

References

References

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

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