CVE-2026-11622

Potential memory usage beyond configured limits

HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.54 % · percentile 45 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
isc
NVD status
Undergoing Analysis

Description

A DNSSEC validating resolver that is under a random subdomain attack against a DNSSEC-signed zone can suffer from runaway memory usage. The attacker needs to be able to send queries faster than the resolver can perform validation. The increased memory usage can be orders of magnitude beyond the limit configured in the `max-cache-size` parameter. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.24, 9.21.0 through 9.21.23, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.24-S1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hisc
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · security-officer@isc.org (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
ISC · BIND 9affected 9.11.0 ≤ 9.18.50 ; affected 9.20.0 ≤ 9.20.24 ; affected 9.21.0 ≤ 9.21.23 ; affected 9.11.3-S1 ≤ 9.18.50-S1 ; affected 9.20.9-S1 ≤ 9.20.24-S1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD