An attacker can trigger an assertion failure by requesting crafted DNS records, waiting for them to be inserted into the records cache, then send a query with qtype set to ANY.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-617"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/59xxx/CVE-2025-59029.json",
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"cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:5.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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],
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}