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CVE-2022-3080

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3080 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting ISC BIND and Fedora Project BIND/Fedora, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 'named' resolver by sending specific queries. This denial-of-service vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness among security professionals.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.16.14, < 9.16.33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 9.18.0, < 9.18.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 9.19.0, < 9.19.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
9.16.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.14:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
9.16.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.21:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 bind 9.16.33-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 9.16.33-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 bind 9.16.33-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.16.33-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18608-16823Fixed in: 9.16.33-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18606-16820Fixed in: 9.16.33-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: bind-32:9.16.23-1.el9_0.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: bind9.16-32:9.16.23-0.7.el8_6.1
View patch
alistgovendor investigatingvia llm_extracted
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

redhatCVE-2022-3080Important

bind: BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from cache with zero stale-answer-timeout may terminate unexpectedly

Sep 21, 2022
microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-3080Important

BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from stale cache with zero stale-answer-client-timeout may terminate unexpectedly

Sep 13, 2022
alistgollm-alistgo-9188072324e895a6

BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from stale cache with zero stale-answer-timeout may terminate unexpectedly

References

kb.isc.org / docs/cve-2022-3080
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4GQWBPF7Y52J2FA24U6UMHQAOXZEF7
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRHB6J4Z7BKH4HPEKG5D35QGRD6ANNMT
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZJQNUASODNVAWZV6STKG5SD6XIJ446S
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202210-25
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240621-0002
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5235
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory