Access Restriction Bypass Affecting bind package, versions [,9.12.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-2381979
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jan 2019

CVE-2017-3141  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.12.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. Affects BIND 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1.

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