CVE-2020-8622

A truncated TSIG response can lead to an assertion failure

Medium · published August 21, 2020

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05793 · 93.1th percentile
Published
2020-08-21T20:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 20:50Z
    A truncated TSIG response can lead to an assertion failure
    cvelistv5