Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting powerdns package, versions [,4.9.15)[5.0.0-alpha0,5.0.5)
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- published22 May 2026
- disclosed21 May 2026
- creditilhamaf
Introduced: 21 May 2026
CVE-2026-42000 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade powerdns to version 4.9.15, 5.0.5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling during the AXFR operation due to missing escaping of special characters (such as $ or @) in DNS names. An attacker can cause Bind backend to fail until manual operation is performed to fix the configuration.