CVE-2026-3592

medium

Published 2026-05-20 · Modified 2026-05-21

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CVSS v3

5.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

BIND resolvers are vulnerable to an amplified resource consumption/exhaustion attack. If a victim resolver makes a query to a specially crafted zone, the resolver will consume disproportionate resources. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.48, 9.20.0 through 9.20.22, 9.21.0 through 9.21.21, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.48-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.22-S1.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:9.18.49-1~deb12u1`
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`1:9.20.23-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:9.20.23-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:9.20.23-1~deb13u1`
sles		affected
windows		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
isc	bind	`{"startIncluding":"9.11.0","endIncluding":"9.16.50"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-408

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.