CVE-2025-13878 (GCVE-0-2025-13878)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-21 14:43 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:07
VLAI
Title
Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause named to terminate unexpectedly
Summary
Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause `named` to terminate unexpectedly. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.40 through 9.18.43, 9.20.13 through 9.20.17, 9.21.12 through 9.21.16, 9.18.40-S1 through 9.18.43-S1, and 9.20.13-S1 through 9.20.17-S1.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
  • CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Assigner
isc
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ISC BIND 9 Affected: 9.18.40 , ≤ 9.18.43 (custom)
Affected: 9.20.13 , ≤ 9.20.17 (custom)
Affected: 9.21.12 , ≤ 9.21.16 (custom)
Affected: 9.18.40-S1 , ≤ 9.18.43-S1 (custom)
Affected: 9.20.13-S1 , ≤ 9.20.17-S1 (custom)
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Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images     cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Date Public
2026-01-21 00:00
Credits
ISC would like to thank Vlatko Kosturjak from Marlink Cyber for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.
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