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CVE-2010-0290

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0290 describes an unspecified vulnerability in various versions of ISC BIND (9.0.x through 9.3.x, 9.4 before 9.4.3-P5, 9.5 before 9.5.2-P2, 9.6 before 9.6.1-P3, and 9.7.0 beta) when DNSSEC validation is enabled but checking is disabled. This flaw allows remote attackers to perform DNS cache poisoning by sending CNAME or DNAME records in response to recursive client queries, which are cached without proper validation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, resulting in partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0678 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind-30:9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0290Moderate

BIND upstream fix for CVE-2009-4022 is incomplete

Jan 19, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
marc.info
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/38219
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38240
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40086
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6815
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7512
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8884
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0062.html
isc.org / advisories/CVE-2009-4022v6
Vendor Advisory
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0018
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2054
mandriva.com / security/advisories
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-888-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0176
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0622
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1352