CVE-2020-8624
4.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.6%
Description
In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.
How to fix CVE-2020-8624
To remediate CVE-2020-8624, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 9.16.6-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 1:9.16.6-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-8624 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
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 | MEDIUM4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |