CVE-2026-3039
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk62th percentile - higher than 62% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vulnerability in BIND servers configured to use TKEY authentication with GSS-API tokens. Receiving crafted packets can lead to excessive memory consumption, resulting in Denial of Service.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can remotely exhaust the DNS server's memory, causing service disruption and potentially affecting the entire network.
Recommendation
Update BIND to a patched version. If not possible, temporarily disable TKEY authentication or restrict server access to trusted clients only.
Other vulnerabilities in BIND
See all- CVE-2025-13878High
Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause `named` to terminate unexpectedly. This vulnerability affects specific versions of BIND 9.
- CVE-1999-0024Medium
CVE-1999-0024 vulnerability involves a malicious attack on DNS cache via BIND, exploiting predictable query IDs.
- CVE-2026-13321High
The BIND resolver accepts validly-signed NSEC records where the "Next Domain Name" field points outside the signer's zone. Affected versions include BIND 9.11.0-9.18.50, 9.20.0-9.20.24, 9.21.0-9.21.23, and S1 versions.
- CVE-2026-13204High
BIND 9 in certain versions may exit unexpectedly with an assertion while validating proof if a domain is covered by both NSEC and NSEC3 records and an RRSIG exists for only one type.
- CVE-2026-12617High
BIND 9 contains a vulnerability that causes unexpected termination of the named process. The issue occurs with specific ordering of responses to queries for CNAME, DNAME, and A records when the authoritative server delays the response.
- CVE-2026-11721High
In BIND 9, an attacker can respond to a query with an RRSIG having fewer labels than the zone, causing a wildcard name for a shorter zone, leading to cache poisoning. This requires synth-from-dnssec yes (default).
- CVE-2026-11622High
A DNSSEC validating resolver under a random subdomain attack can suffer from runaway memory usage, exceeding the max-cache-size limit. The attacker needs to send queries faster than the resolver can validate.
- CVE-2026-11605High
Resource exhaustion vulnerability in BIND related to DNSSEC validation. The server always validates all RRSIG records in a response, even if unnecessary, leading to excessive CPU usage.
- CVE-2026-11331High
BIND 9 has a vulnerability in RPZ processing with wildcard CNAME policies. An attacker can send a query with a long name triggering a NAMETOOLONG error, which may lead to bypassing RPZ rules or an unexpected exit of BIND 9.
- CVE-2026-10822Medium
A flaw in BIND 9: accepting an invalid data structure in a DNS record (PRIVATEDNS algorithm with incorrect length) can cause the server to abort when rendering the record to text.
Original NVD description (English source)
BIND servers that are configured to use TKEY-based authentication via GSS-API tokens are vulnerable to excessive memory consumption when receiving and processing maliciously-constructed packets. Typically these servers will be found in Active Directory integrated DNS deployments and/or Kerberos-secured DNS environments. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.0.0 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, 9.9.3-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.

