High
Security advisory
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions after 4.1.3 before 4.1.9 where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some specific combination of settings, possibly bypassing security policies enforced using Lua.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3806
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions after 4.1.3 before 4.1.9 where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some specific combination of settings, possibly bypassing security policies enforced using Lua.
osv:CVE-2019-3806
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-3806",
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"title": "CVE-2019-3806",
"summary": "An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions after 4.1.3 before 4.1.9 where Lua hooks are not properly applied to queries received over TCP in some specific combination of settings, possibly bypassing security policies enforced using Lua.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-3806",
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"severity": "high",
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.348630438Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2019-01.html",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3806"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433946,
"published_at": "2019-01-29T17:29:00.287+00:00"
}