CVE-2018-5741

Update policies krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain do not enforce controls promised in their documentation

Medium · published January 16, 2019

CVSS v3.0
6.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
89.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS (DDNS) to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when sending the update request. Unfortunately, some rule types were not initially documented, and when documentation for them was added to the Administrator Reference Manual (ARM) in change #3112, the language that was added to the ARM at that time incorrectly described the behavior of two rule types, krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain. This incorrect documentation could mislead operators into believing that policies they had configured were more restrictive than they actually were. This affects BIND versions prior to BIND 9.11.5 and BIND 9.12.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03479 · 89.0th percentile
Published
2019-01-16T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JAN 20:00Z
    Update policies krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain do not enforce controls promised in their documentation
    cvelistv5