Information disclosure in ISC BIND

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU17828

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6465

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to controls for zone transfers may not be properly applied to Dynamically Loadable Zones (DLZs) if the zones are writable. A remote attacker can request and receive a zone transfer of a DLZ even when not permitted to do so by the allow-transfer ACL.

Mitigation

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 9.11.5-P4, 9.12.3-P4.

Vulnerable software versions

ISC BIND: 4.9.9 - 9.13.6

External links

http://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6465

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.