CVE-2020-8620

high

Description

In BIND 9.15.6 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, An attacker who can establish a TCP connection with the server and send data on that connection can exploit this to trigger the assertion failure, causing the server to exit.

References

https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19

https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-08-21

Updated: 2022-06-02

Type: CWE-617

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH