Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8461

Title: Isc Bind Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8461.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Dec 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8461: Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10.3 before 9.10.3-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174145.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174252.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79347 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034419 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.539966 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01319 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174145.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174252.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79347 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034419 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.539966 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01319 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438

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-2015-8461 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 16, 2015 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.