CVE-2020-25829

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.1.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.5, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. A remote attacker can cause the cached records for a given name to be updated to the Bogus DNSSEC validation state, instead of their actual DNSSEC Secure state, via a DNS ANY query. This results in a denial of service for installation that always validate (dnssec=validate), and for clients requesting validation when on-demand validation is enabled (dnssec=process).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-25829

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202010-6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.3.5-1
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.5-1
debian debiansidfixed4.3.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.5-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.