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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-21

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02814