Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0914

Title: ISC BIND cache poisoning via negative responses

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0914.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 15, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0914: ISC BIND 8.3.x before 8.3.7, and 8.4.x before 8.4.3, allows remote attackers to poison the cache via a malicious name server that returns negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value.

Impacted Vendors

nixu 1

isc 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2004-003.0/CSSA-2004-003.0.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.33/CSSA-2003-SCO.33.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/10542 http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57434 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-409 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/734644 http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0044-bind.asc.txt https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2011 ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/CSSA-2004-003.0/CSSA-2004-003.0.txt ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.33/CSSA-2003-SCO.33.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/10542 http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57434 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-409 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/734644 http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0044-bind.asc.txt https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2011

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0914 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 15, 2003 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.