CVE 3.7 LOW

Denial of service via crafted DoH exchange in PowerDNS DNSdist_CVE-2025-30187

3.7 / 10
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

In some circumstances, when DNSdist is configured to use the nghttp2 library to process incoming DNS over HTTPS queries, an attacker might be able to cause a denial of service by crafting a DoH exchange that triggers an unbounded I/O read loop, causing an unexpected consumption of CPU resources.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-30187
Source OX
Published Sep 18, 2025 at 09:21

Affected Product

Vendor PowerDNS
Product DNSdist
Version 1.9.0
Affected Versions PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0
PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.0

CWE Classification

References

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