CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40780
8.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-341
Description
In specific circumstances, due to a weakness in the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) that is used, it is possible for an attacker to predict the source port and query ID that BIND will use.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-341 Predictable from Observable State weakness
References
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40780 kb.isc.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/22/1 www.openwall.com