Multiple vulnerabilities in ISC BIND

Published: 2025-01-29

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2024-12705 CVE-2024-11187
CWE-ID	CWE-399 CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	ISC BIND Server applications / DNS servers
Vendor	ISC

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU103437

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12705

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application within the DNS-over-HTTPS feature. A remote attacker can send multiple HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack. The vulnerability affects both authoritative servers and resolvers.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ISC BIND: 9.18.0 - 9.21.3

CPE2.3

External links

https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2024-12705

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.

2) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU103436