{"id":"CVE-2026-78301","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-78301","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:32:07.102Z","title":"If an attacker inserts a malformed zone into a BIND authoritative server (e.g., via zone transfer), queries for names inside the configured zone then lose authoritative status and return an out-of-zone delegation.","description":"A malformed zone may contain an NS or DNAME node above its origin, which `named` treats as a zone cut. If an attacker inserts a malformed zone into a BIND authoritative server (e.g., via zone transfer), queries for names inside the configured zone then lose authoritative status and return an out-of-zone delegation. On a server that also provides recursion BIND can follow this locally sourced cut and cache attacker-supplied data, affecting names outside the configured zone. This situation persists as long as the malformed zone remains in the zone database.\nThis issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.27, 9.21.0 through 9.21.25, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.27-S1.","published":"2026-09-16T14:17:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T23:10:00.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"security-officer@isc.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-349"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00207,"percentile":0.10706,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.20.29","source":"security-officer@isc.org"},{"url":"https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.21.26","source":"security-officer@isc.org"},{"url":"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-78301","source":"security-officer@isc.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78301","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}