Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting bind package, versions [9.18.0,9.20.26)[9.21.0,9.21.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-18305961
  • published25 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-10723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.20.26, 9.21.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via the validation process for NSEC3 records. An attacker can forge authenticated NXDOMAIN responses by crafting malicious NSEC3 records that are incorrectly accepted as valid.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1