Privilege Escalation Affecting bind package, versions [9.9.12,9.10.0)[9.10.7,9.11.0)[9.11.3,9.11.22)[9.12.1,9.16.6)[9.17.0,9.17.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-2382022
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Aug 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.10.0, 9.11.0, 9.11.22, 9.16.6, 9.17.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. 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.

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