CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
36.7%
ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:isc:bind";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.149834");
script_version("2023-10-13T05:06:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 05:06:10 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-06-22 04:05:45 +0000 (Thu, 22 Jun 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-06-21 18:57:00 +0000 (Wed, 21 Jun 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-2829");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-2829) - Linux");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_isc_bind_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("isc/bind/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A named instance configured to run as a DNSSEC-validating
recursive resolver with the Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache (RFC 8198) option
(synth-from-dnssec) enabled can be remotely terminated using a zone with a malformed NSEC
record.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"By sending specific queries to the resolver, an attacker can
cause named to terminate unexpectedly.
Note that the BIND configuration option synth-from-dnssec is enabled by default in all versions
of BIND 9.18 and 9.18-S and newer. In earlier versions of BIND that had this option available, it
was disabled unless activated explicitly in named.conf.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND versions 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.41-S1 and 9.18.11-S1
through 9.18.15-S1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.16.42-S1, 9.18.16-S1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-2829");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version =~ "^9\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+s[0-9]") {
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.16.8s1", test_version2: "9.16.41s1")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.16.42-S1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.11s1", test_version2: "9.18.15s1")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.16-S1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);