Improper Privilege Management Affecting bind package, versions <9.16.6-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.64% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-BIND-7008361
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed21 Aug 2020

Introduced: 21 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-8624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 bind to version 9.16.6-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind package and not the bind package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1