CVE-2020-8618

medium

Description

An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html

https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8618

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200625-0003/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4399-1/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-06-17

Updated: 2020-10-20

Type: CWE-617

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.2

Severity: MEDIUM