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high 7.5

CVE-2022-3488 in the critical feed json

named may terminate unexpectedly when processing ECS options in repeated responses to iterative queries

published 3y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-42860

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.0%
EPSS 19.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Processing of repeated responses to the same query, where both responses contain ECS pseudo-options, but where the first is broken in some way, can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure.

'Broken' in this context is anything that would cause the resolver to reject the query response, such as a mismatch between query and answer name. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.4-S1 through 9.11.37-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3488 updated cvss 7.5

bind: processing specially crafted responses in quick succession may lead to assertion failure

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot, bind-pkcs11, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 bind, bind-sdb, bind9.16, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot, +14 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 bind, dhcp, bind-libs, bind-utils, dhcp-relay, bind-chroot, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

19.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • ISC BIND 9

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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