CVE-2020-8622

MEDIUM

BIND 9.* - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0263
EPSS Percentile 85.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-617
Status published

Affected Products (17)

isc/bind < 9.11.21
isc/bind
isc/bind
fedoraproject/fedora
fedoraproject/fedora
debian/debian_linux
debian/debian_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux
canonical/ubuntu_linux
netapp/steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage
opensuse/leap
opensuse/leap
... and 2 more

Timeline

Published Aug 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026