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CVE-2006-2069: powerdns Resource Management Errors

Modified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2006-2069
Published 27-04-2006Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-2069 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in powerdns. EPSS estimates a 6.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
6.10%
0%100%
Low · +0.14 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11156-1

Timeline

  1. 27-04-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The recursor in PowerDNS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed EDNS0 packets.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

6.10%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.14 pp

From 5.96% on 05-10-2026

05-10-202604-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • pdns-recursor< 3.0.1-1
Powerdns1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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