CVE-2023-5679
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.2%
Description
A bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale may cause `named` to crash with an assertion failure during recursive resolution, when both of these features are enabled. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.
How to fix CVE-2023-5679
To remediate CVE-2023-5679, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 9.16.48-r0 or later
Is CVE-2023-5679 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 9.16.12, < 9.16.48-r0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |