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CVE-2014-3859

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3859 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libdns within ISC BIND 9.10.0 before P2, affecting named, dig, and delv. Attackers can exploit this by sending a crafted packet, leading to an assertion failure and daemon exit. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it represents a low-complexity attack with a partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage 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
6.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0698 is in the 91st 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-2014-3859Important

bind: assertion failure during EDNS option processing

Jun 11, 2014

References

secunia.com / advisories/58946
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01166
Vendor Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01171
securityfocus.com / bid/68193
securitytracker.com / id/1030414