CVE-2020-8618

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.85% (79th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.

cvss

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

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-officer@isc.orgexploitability 1.2 · impact 3.6

v3.14.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

ISC BIND9≤ 9.16.0 -> 9.16.3enisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 20.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
isc bind9.16.0 → 9.16.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp steelstore cloud integrated storageall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:netapp:steelstore_cloud_integrated_storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 15.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 15.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-06-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (20)

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