CVE-2020-8620
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 8.4%
Description
In BIND 9.15.6 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, An attacker who can establish a TCP connection with the server and send data on that connection can exploit this to trigger the assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
How to fix CVE-2020-8620
To remediate CVE-2020-8620, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/bind—upgrade to 9.16.6-r0 or later
- Debian/bind9—upgrade to 1:9.16.6-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-8620 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 8.4%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 9.16.6-r0
- from 0, < 1:9.16.6-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |