CVE-2020-8624 describes an improper privilege management vulnerability in multiple versions of BIND 9, including those from ISC, Canonical, Debian, Fedora, NetApp, and openSUSE. An authenticated attacker with limited zone content modification privileges could exploit this to alter other, unauthorized parts of the zone. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low impact on integrity and no impact on confidentiality or availability, requiring low privileges and network access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 9.9.12, <= 9.9.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.10.7, <= 9.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.11.3, <= 9.11.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.12.1, <= 9.16.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.17.0, <= 9.17.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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