CVE-2025-40778 (GCVE-0-2025-40778)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 15:47 – Updated: 2026-02-26 16:57
VLAI
Title
Cache poisoning attacks with unsolicited RRs
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.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-349 - Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data
Assigner
isc
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ISC BIND 9 Affected: 9.11.0 , ≤ 9.16.50 (custom)
Affected: 9.18.0 , ≤ 9.18.39 (custom)
Affected: 9.20.0 , ≤ 9.20.13 (custom)
Affected: 9.21.0 , ≤ 9.21.12 (custom)
Affected: 9.11.3-S1 , ≤ 9.16.50-S1 (custom)
Affected: 9.18.11-S1 , ≤ 9.18.39-S1 (custom)
Affected: 9.20.9-S1 , ≤ 9.20.13-S1 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-10-22 00:00
Credits
ISC would like to thank Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan from Tsinghua University for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.
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