Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-8616

Title: BIND Traffic Amplification

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-8616.

CWE Category CWE-400
Published Date May 19, 2020
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.6 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
15.34%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-8616: A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.

Impacted Vendors

I
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Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html http://www.nxnsattack.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/19/4 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8616 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00031.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JKJXVBOKZ36ER3EUCR7VRB7WGHIIMPNJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOGCJS2XQ3SQNF4W6GLZ73LWZJ6ZZWZI/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200522-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4689 https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_12 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html http://www.nxnsattack.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/19/4 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8616 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00031.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JKJXVBOKZ36ER3EUCR7VRB7WGHIIMPNJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WOGCJS2XQ3SQNF4W6GLZ73LWZJ6ZZWZI/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200522-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4689 https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_12
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.6
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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-2020-8616 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.