Use After Free Affecting bind package, versions [9.20.0,9.20.23)[9.21.0,9.21.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.54% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-16874106
  • published25 May 2026
  • disclosed20 May 2026
  • creditNaresh Kandula Parmar

Introduced: 20 May 2026

CVE-2026-3593  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.20.23, 9.21.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the DNS-over-HTTPS process. An attacker can cause memory corruption or potentially execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted DNS-over-HTTPS requests. This is only exploitable if DNS-over-HTTPS is enabled.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling DNS-over-HTTPS.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1