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CVE-2020-8618

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Date: June 17, 2020

An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.

Language: C

Severity Score

4.9

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8618

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200625-0003/

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html

Url: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8618

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8618

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4399-1/

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8618

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-8618

Severity Score

4.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	SINGLE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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