CVE-2025-40777
If a `named` caching resolver is configured with `serve-stale-enable` `yes`, and with `stale-answer-client-timeout` set to `0` (the only allowable value other than `disabled`), and if the resolver, in the process of resolving a query, encounters a CNAME chain involving a specific combination of cached or authoritative records, the daemon will abort with an assertion failure. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.20.0 through 9.20.10, 9.21.0 through 9.21.9, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.10-S1.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.92%
- CWE
- CWE-617
- Published
- 2025-07-16
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- ISC BIND 9
- ISC BIND 9
- ISC BIND 9
- ISC BIND 9
- ISC BIND 9
Weakness type
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