CVE-2025-40778

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ISCBIND 99.11.0 <= 9.16.50affected
ISCBIND 99.18.0 <= 9.18.39affected
ISCBIND 99.20.0 <= 9.20.13affected
ISCBIND 99.21.0 <= 9.21.12affected
ISCBIND 99.11.3-S1 <= 9.16.50-S1affected
ISCBIND 99.18.11-S1 <= 9.18.39-S1affected
ISCBIND 99.20.9-S1 <= 9.20.13-S1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-349: CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data

Workarounds

No workarounds known.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

CVE Program Container

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