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Authoritative Server

7 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Authoritative Server, a product in the networking infrastructure space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Authoritative Server CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Authoritative Server CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
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2024-120
2025-010
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2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
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2026-040
2026-050
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2026-070
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 7 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • High229%
  • Medium571%

Latest CVEs

The 7 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Authoritative Server.

  1. CVE-2022-27227In PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.4.3, 4.5.x before 4.5.4, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1 and PowerDNS Recursor before 4.4.8, 4.5.x before 4.5.8, and 4.6.x before 4.6.1, insufficient validation of ...7.5
  2. CVE-2021-36754PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by sending a specific query (QTYPE 65535) that causes an out-of-bounds exception.7.5
  3. CVE-2019-10203PowerDNS Authoritative daemon , pdns versions 4.0.x before 4.0.9, 4.1.x before 4.1.11, exiting when encountering a serial between 2^31 and 2^32-1 while trying to notify a slave leads to DoS.4.3
  4. CVE-2019-3871A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in th...6.5
  5. CVE-2016-6172PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 4.0.1 allows remote primary DNS servers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and secondary DNS server crash) via a large (1) AXFR or (2) I...6.8
  6. CVE-2012-0206common_startup.cc in PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 2.9.22.5 and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet loop) via a crafted UDP DNS response.5.0
  7. CVE-2008-3337PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 2.9.21.1 drops malformed queries, which might make it easier for remote attackers to poison DNS caches of other products running on other servers, a different i...6.4

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