CVE-2018-5737

mediumpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.104 · 96 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

10.4% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

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5 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A problem with the implementation of the new serve-stale feature in BIND 9.12 can lead to an assertion failure in rbtdb.c, even when stale-answer-enable is off. Additionally, problematic interaction between the serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching can in some cases cause undesirable behavior from named, such as a recursion loop or excessive logging. Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either degradation or denial of service. Affects BIND 9.12.0 and 9.12.1.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-officer@isc.orgexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-617USprimary

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

ISC BIND 9≤ 9.12.0 and 9.12.1enisa_euvdEU
isc bind= 9.12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind= 9.12.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp cloud backupall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:netapp:cloud_backup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp data ontap edgeall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:netapp:data_ontap_edge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-01-16modified 2026-06-17

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