In some circumstances, when DNSdist is configured to allow an unlimited number of queries on a single, incoming TCP connection from a client, an attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting a TCP exchange that triggers an exhaustion of the stack and a crash of DNSdist, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 1.9.10 version. A workaround is to restrict the maximum number of queries on incoming TCP connections to a safe value, like 50, via the setMaxTCPQueriesPerConnection setting. We would like to thank Renaud Allard for bringing this issue to our attention.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-30193 is rated Moderate Risk (42.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.15%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-16 | 0.07% | 0.15% | +0.09% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 0.23% | 0.07% | -0.17% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 0.23% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
alpine
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high | CVE-2025-30193: 1 source package rows (dnsdist); 3 state rows across 3 repos (3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 3, open 0. | https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-30193 |
debian
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end-of-life | CVE-2025-30193 end-of-life priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dnsdist), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-30193 |
suse
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high | — | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-30193/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-30193 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dnsdist), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): not-affected 4, released 3, ignored 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-30193 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| No affected products in dataset. | |||