Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-5947
Undefined behavior may result due to a race condition leading to a use-after-free violation. If BIND receives an incoming DNS message signed with SIG(0), it begins work to validate that signature. If, during that validation, the "recursive-clients" limit is reached (as would occur during a query flood), and that same DNS message is discarded per the limit, there is a brief window of time while the SIG(0) validation may attempt to read the now-discarded DNS message.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.20.0 through 9.20.22, 9.21.0 through 9.21.21, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.22-S1.
BIND 9 versions 9.18.28 through 9.18.49 and 9.18.28-S1 through 9.18.49-S1 are NOT affected.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 13.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-5947
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.0
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.1
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.10
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.11
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.12
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.13
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.15
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.16
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.17
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.18
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.19
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.2
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.20
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.21
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.22
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.3
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.4
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.5
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.6
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.7
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.8
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.20.9
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.0
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.1
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.10
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.11
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.12
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.14
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.15
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.16
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.17
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.18
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.19
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.2
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.20
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.21
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.3
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.4
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.5
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.6
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.7
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.8
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cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.21.9