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CVE-2018-5738

Change #4777 (introduced in October 2017) introduced an unforeseen issue in releases which were issued after that date, affecting which clients are permitted to make recursive queries to a BIND nameserver. The intended (and documented) behavior is that if an operator has not specified a value for the "allow-recursion" setting, it SHOULD default to one of the following: none, if "recursion no;" is set in named.conf; a value inherited from the "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" settings IF "recursion yes;" (the default for that setting) AND match lists are explicitly set for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" (see the BIND9 Administrative Reference Manual section 6.2 for more details); or the intended default of "allow-recursion {localhost; localnets;};" if "recursion yes;" is in effect and no values are explicitly set for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query". However, because of the regression introduced by change #4777, it is possible when "recursion yes;" is in effect and no match list values are provided for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" for the setting of "allow-recursion" to inherit a setting of all hosts from the "allow-query" setting default, improperly permitting recursion to all clients. Affects BIND 9.9.12, 9.10.7, 9.11.3, 9.12.0->9.12.1-P2, the development release 9.13.0, and also releases 9.9.12-S1, 9.10.7-S1, 9.11.3-S1, and 9.11.3-S2 from BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition.

Published

2019-01-16T20:29:00.907

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:09:17.273

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-200
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application isc bind 9.9.12 Yes
Application isc bind 9.9.12 Yes
Application isc bind 9.10.7 Yes
Application isc bind 9.10.7 Yes
Application isc bind 9.11.3 Yes
Application isc bind 9.11.3 Yes
Application isc bind 9.11.3 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.0 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.1 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.1 Yes
Application isc bind 9.12.1 Yes
Application isc bind 9.13.0 Yes
Operating System canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04 Yes
References