Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-5689

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-5689.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jan 25, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

12.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-5689: ISC BIND 9.8.x through 9.8.4-P1 and 9.9.x through 9.9.2-P1, in certain configurations involving DNS64 with a Response Policy Zone that lacks an AAAA rewrite rule, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for an AAAA record.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0550.html http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-5689 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2693-1 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00855/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0550.html http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-5689 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2693-1 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00855/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-5689 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 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 25, 2013 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:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.