Invalid handling of CLASS != IN
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.9%
exploitation probability
1.9%top 23% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Multiple flaws have been identified in `named` related to the handling of DNS messages whose CLASS is not Internet (`IN`) — for example, `CHAOS` or `HESIOD`, or DNS messages that specify meta-classes (`ANY` or `NONE`) in the question section. Specially crafted requests reaching the affected code paths — recursion, dynamic updates (`UPDATE`), zone change notifications (`NOTIFY`), or processing of `IN`-specific record types in non-`IN` data — can cause assertion failures in `named`.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.48, 9.20.0 through 9.20.22, 9.21.0 through 9.21.21, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.48-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.22-S1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
ISC · BIND 9References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20334https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23360https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24338https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24339https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24367https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24368https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5946https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479771https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.18.49https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.20.23https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.21.22https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-5946