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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-5737

Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either degradation or denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 10.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.4%, higher than 95% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

A problem with the implementation of the new serve-stale feature in BIND 9.12 can lead to an assertion failure in rbtdb.c, even when stale-answer-enable is off. Additionally, problematic interaction between the serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching can in some cases cause undesirable behavior from named, such as a recursion loop or excessive logging. Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either degradation or denial of service. Affects BIND 9.12.0 and 9.12.1.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
10.44% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-617
Affected
isc/bind · netapp/cloud backup · netapp/data ontap edge
Source
security-officer@isc.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.