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01 Record

CVE-2018-5737

BIND 9.12's serve-stale implementation can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c or other undesirable behavior, even if serve-stale is not enabled.

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: isc
CNA base score5.9 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

BIND 9.12's serve-stale implementation can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c or other undesirable behavior, even if serve-stale is not enabled.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
10.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 95.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2019-01-16 20:00Z7 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 22:40Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2018-01-17
Assigning CNA
isc
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 5.9)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-617Reachable AssertionBase
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
4dafee62070745064750f50953e7cf10dedd750a74034782a7990b0a40abc5ce

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
ISCBIND 99.12.0 and 9.12.1—

06 References

07 Remediation

The error which can be exploited in this vulnerability is present in only two public release versions of BIND, 9.12.0 and 9.12.1. If you are running an affected version then upgrade to BIND 9.12.1-P2

08 Fixed in

Arch Linux

  • bind
    Fixed in 9.12.1.P2-1

Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

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