CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-3039

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.05%

62th 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.

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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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS