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CVE-2005-2302

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2302 describes a vulnerability in PowerDNS before version 2.9.18. When configured to allow recursion for a restricted set of IP addresses, the software fails to properly manage queries from unauthorized clients, potentially causing a denial of service where legitimate clients receive no answers. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating local access and low attack complexity, primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:2.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:2.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:2.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.3aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:2.9.3a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:powerdns:2.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

doc.powerdns.com / changelog.html
marc.info
securitytracker.com / id
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html