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CVE-2020-8617

Published: May 19, 2020

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

Description

Using a specially-crafted message, an attacker may potentially cause a BIND server to reach an inconsistent state if the attacker knows (or successfully guesses) the name of a TSIG key used by the server. Since BIND, by default, configures a local session key even on servers whose configuration does not otherwise make use of it, almost all current BIND servers are vulnerable. In releases of BIND dating from March 2018 and after, an assertion check in tsig.c detects this inconsistent state and deliberately exits. Prior to the introduction of the check the server would continue operating in an inconsistent state, with potentially harmful results.

VendorProductVersions

ISC

BIND9

affected
9.0.0 -> 9.11.18, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P2, 9.14.0 -> 9.14.11, 9.16.0 -> 9.16.2, and releases 9.17.0 -> 9.17.1 of the 9.17 experimental development branch. All releases in the obsolete 9.13 and 9.15 development branches. All releases of BIND Supported Preview Edition from 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.18-S1

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

DSA-4689
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
USN-4365-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
USN-4365-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
FEDORA-2020-2d89cbcfd9
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2020-f9dcd4e9d5
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
openSUSE-SU-2020:1699
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2020:1701
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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CVE-2020-8617 | HIGH (7.5) - Security Vulnerability | QwikSec