CVE-2026-77119 PUBLISHED

NSEC3 insecure-referral proof can use unrelated cached NSEC3 RRsets

Assigner: isc
Reserved: 20.08.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

A validly signed NSEC3 from an unrelated sibling zone may be accepted as an insecurity proof, downgrading a secure delegation and letting a forged unsigned answer through. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.27, 9.21.0 through 9.21.25, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.27-S1.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	ISC
Product	BIND 9
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 9.11.0 to 9.18.50 (incl.) affected from 9.20.0 to 9.20.27 (incl.) affected from 9.21.0 to 9.21.25 (incl.) affected from 9.11.3-S1 to 9.18.50-S1 (incl.) affected from 9.20.9-S1 to 9.20.27-S1 (incl.)

Exploits

This flaw was discovered in internal testing. We are not aware of any active exploits.

Workarounds

No workarounds known.

Solutions

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND 9: 9.20.29, 9.21.26, or 9.20.29-S1.

References

Problem Types

CWE-346 Origin Validation Error CWE

Impacts

An attacker may be able to provide false delegations to an unsigned zone enabling a cache poisoning attack.