ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-40778
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778
Upstream
  • CVE-2025-40778
Published
2025-10-22T16:15:42Z
Modified
2026-08-27T22:18:02Z
Severity
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.19
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.18.41-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"
Alpine:v3.20
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.18.41-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"
Alpine:v3.21
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.18.41-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"
Alpine:v3.22
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.20.15-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"
Alpine:v3.23
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.20.15-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"
Alpine:v3.24
bind

Package

Name
bind
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/bind?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.20.15-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2025-40778.json"