CVE-2020-8616

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

10.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 95.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.6 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. 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.

Published

2020-05-19 14:05Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 23:55Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-02-05

Assigning CNA

isc

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 8.6)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

188a6e955c13b7dd62ee52b101402236185dc424915e0e9a94f8789e66722480

• kb.isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8616x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.nxnsattack.comhttp://www.nxnsattack.comx_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20200519 Two vulnerabilities disclosed in BIND (CVE-2020-8616 and CVE-2020-8617)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/19/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.debian.orgDSA-4689https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4689vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200522-0002/x_refsource_CONFIRM
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4365-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-2/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.synology.comhttps://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_12x_refsource_CONFIRM
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4365-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200530 [SECURITY] [DLA 2227-1] bind9 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00031.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-2d89cbcfd9https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOGCJS2XQ3SQNF4W6GLZ73LWZJ6ZZWZI/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-f9dcd4e9d5https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JKJXVBOKZ36ER3EUCR7VRB7WGHIIMPNJ/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1699http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1701http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE