CVE-2020-8624

MEDIUM

BIND <9.16.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8624
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4752
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0163
EPSS Percentile 82.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (14)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
isc/bind 9.9.12 s1
isc/bind 9.9.13 s1
isc/bind 9.11.3 s1
isc/bind 9.11.21 s1
... and 4 more
Published Aug 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026