CVE-2014-8500
ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 59.0%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 58.97% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- isc/bind
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 59.0% on 22 October 2026 to 59.0% on 4 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html
- http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10676
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00038.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144000632319155&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0078.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62064
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62122
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1031311
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:165
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71590
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/
- https://support.apple.com/HT205219
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html
- http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.