High severity · published Jan 26, 2009
CVE-2009-0265
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to…
7.5
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Bind · Isc
through 9.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0265
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0265
Mailing List
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/49ef622c8329fd33
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/33559
Mailing List
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.540362
Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:037
Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0043
Broken Link
https://www.isc.org/node/373
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