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CVE-2025-40778

Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forged data into the cache. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.

  • Published: Oct 22, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-40778
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.6
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWEs:

No affected software listed.