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CVE-2016-9131

38
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9131 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ISC BIND versions 9.9.9-P5, 9.10.4-P5, and 9.11.0-P2 and earlier, specifically impacting Debian, ISC, NetApp, and Red Hat products. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger an assertion failure and daemon exit by sending a malformed response to an RTYPE ANY query. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, indicating its potential impact despite not being actively exploited in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.0, <= 9.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.10.0, <= 9.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.9:b1:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.9:b2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
40.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4056 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: bind-32:9.9.4-38.el7_3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: bind-32:9.9.4-29.el7_2.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9131Important

bind: assertion failure while processing response to an ANY query

Jan 11, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0062.html
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1583
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
PatchThird Party Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01439/74/CVE-2016-9131
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201708-01
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20180926-0005
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3758
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95386
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037582
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry