Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0987

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-0987.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 03, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

57.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-0987: The default configuration of ISC BIND before 9.4.1-P1, when configured as a caching name server, allows recursive queries and provides additional delegation information to arbitrary IP addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via DNS queries with spoofed source IP addresses.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/sum1.html http://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00269 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426368/100/0/threaded http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion121605.pdf

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0987 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.

March 03, 2006 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.