CVE-2025-40778
HIGH8.6EPSS 0.01%bind9 - security update
Published: 10/22/2025Modified: 10/23/2025
Also known as:DSA-6033-1ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40778DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40780DEBIAN-CVE-2025-8677
Description
Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forged data into the cache. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/bindfrom 0, < 9.18.41-r0
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u4
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u4
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |