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CVE-2010-0218

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0218 describes an incorrect Access Control List (ACL) vulnerability in ISC BIND versions 9.7.2 through 9.7.2-P1. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on Recursion Desired (RD) queries, potentially exposing sensitive cached DNS information. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a partial impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.7.2:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0357 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0218

Bind: Unitended availability of cache data.

Sep 28, 2010

References

ftp.isc.org / isc/bind9/9.7.2-P2/RELEASE-NOTES-BIND-9.7.2-P2.html
Patch
lists.isc.org / pipermail/bind-announce/2010-September/000655.html
Vendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/784855
US Government Resource