CVE-2020-8623

bind: remotely triggerable assertion failure in pk11.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 20, 2020

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in bind. An assertion failure can occur when a specially crafted query for a zone signed with an RSA key. BIND must be compiled with "--enable-native-pkcs11" for the system to be affected. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption