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CVE-2014-3214

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3214 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the prefetch implementation of ISC BIND 9.10.0 when configured as a recursive nameserver. A remote attacker can trigger a daemon exit and assertion failure by sending a crafted DNS query that elicits a response with specific, unspecified attributes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. Despite its potential to disrupt DNS services, there is no known exploit intelligence, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1726 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.0 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-2014-3214Important

bind: assertion failure when using prefetch

May 8, 2014

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01161
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1030214
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry