Skip to main content

Early Access — Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence is currently in preview.

Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

Curated by Mondoo Research, enhanced with AI

Resources

Search Vulnerabilities
Trending CVEs
Browse Ecosystems
Terminology
Blog

Open Source

cnquery
cnspec

Star us on GitHub!

Company

Mondoo Platform
About
Contact

© 2026 Mondoo, Inc.

Privacy Policy Terms of Service Imprint

Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2025-40778 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2025-40778

HIGH8.6

Cache poisoning attacks with unsolicited RRs

Published Oct 22, 2025

Modified 2 months ago

No fix available

Details

Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forged data into the cache. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 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, 9.11.3-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.

References

WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/22/1 DETECTIONhttps://gist.github.com/N3mes1s/f76b4a606308937b0806a5256bc1f918 ADVISORYhttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40778 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40778

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

8.6

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

ChangedS:C

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

NoneA:N

8.6/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness Type (CWE)

Other

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedOct 22, 2025

ModifiedNov 7, 2025