CVE-2026-5947
Undefined behavior may result due to a race condition leading to a use-after-free violation.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Undefined behavior may result due to a race condition leading to a use-after-free violation. If BIND receives an incoming DNS message signed with SIG(0), it begins work to validate that signature. If, during that validation, the "recursive-clients" limit is reached (as would occur during a query flood), and that same DNS message is discarded per the limit, there is a brief window of time while the SIG(0) validation may attempt to read the now-discarded DNS message. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.20.0 through 9.20.22, 9.21.0 through 9.21.21, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.22-S1. BIND 9 versions 9.18.28 through 9.18.49 and 9.18.28-S1 through 9.18.49-S1 are NOT affected.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.39% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362, CWE-416, CWE-367
- Affected
- isc/bind
- Source
- security-officer@isc.org
References
- https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.20.23Patch
- https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.21.22Patch
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-5947Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7412
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5947
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479772
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-5947.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.