7.5
HIGH
CVE-2025-30192
"DNS Recursor ECS Spoofing Vulnerability"
Description

An attacker spoofing answers to ECS enabled requests sent out by the Recursor has a chance of success higher than non-ECS enabled queries. The updated version include various mitigations against spoofing attempts of ECS enabled queries by chaining ECS enabled requests and enforcing stricter validation of the received answers. The most strict mitigation done when the new setting outgoing.edns_subnet_harden (old style name edns-subnet-harden) is enabled.

INFO

Published Date :

July 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 22, 2025, 1:06 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-30192 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Powerdns recursor
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-04.html

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-30192 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description An attacker spoofing answers to ECS enabled requests sent out by the Recursor has a chance of success higher than non-ECS enabled queries. The updated version include various mitigations against spoofing attempts of ECS enabled queries by chaining ECS enabled requests and enforcing stricter validation of the received answers. The most strict mitigation done when the new setting outgoing.edns_subnet_harden (old style name edns-subnet-harden) is enabled.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-345
    Added Reference https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2025-04.html
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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