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CVE-2015-8704

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8704 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ISC BIND versions 9.9.x and 9.10.x, specifically affecting 9.9.8-P3 and 9.10.3-P3 and earlier. A remote authenticated attacker can trigger an INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit by providing a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 6.5 (MEDIUM), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring low privileges, and leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2033 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: bind-32:9.9.4-29.el7_2.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8704Moderate

bind: specific APL data could trigger an INSIST in apl_42.c

Jan 19, 2016

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176564.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178045.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175973.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175977.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00020.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00022.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00025.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00033.html
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0073.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0074.html
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01335
Vendor Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01380
Vendor Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01438
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-07
freebsd.org / security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:08.bind.asc
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3449
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2016-3090566.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
securityfocus.com / bid/81329
securitytracker.com / id/1034739
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2874-1