ISC BIND up to 9.18.32/9.20.4/9.21.3 DNS-over-HTTPS resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ISC BIND up to 9.18.32/9.20.4/9.21.3. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component DNS-over-HTTPS. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-12705. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in ISC BIND up to 9.18.32/9.20.4/9.21.3. This affects an unknown functionality of the component DNS-over-HTTPS. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability.

It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-12705. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214790 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-7241-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 9.18.33, 9.20.5 or 9.21.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (214790) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0217). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• IBM VIOS
• IBM AIX
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• SUSE Linux
• IBM SAN Volume Controller
• Xerox FreeFlow Print Server
• Oracle Linux
• IBM Storwize
• Infoblox DDI
• NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
• IBM FlashSystem
• SUSE openSUSE
• Red Hat OpenShift
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Avamar
• Internet Systems Consortium BIND
• Ubuntu Linux
• Infoblox NIOS
• Debian Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• F5 BIG-IP
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain

Productinfo

Type

• Domain Name Software

Vendor

• ISC

Name

• BIND

Version

• 9.18.0
• 9.18.1
• 9.18.2
• 9.18.3
• 9.18.4
• 9.18.5
• 9.18.6
• 9.18.7
• 9.18.8
• 9.18.9
• 9.18.10
• 9.18.11
• 9.18.12
• 9.18.13
• 9.18.14
• 9.18.15
• 9.18.16
• 9.18.17
• 9.18.18
• 9.18.19
• 9.18.20
• 9.18.21
• 9.18.22
• 9.18.23
• 9.18.24
• 9.18.25
• 9.18.26
• 9.18.27
• 9.18.28
• 9.18.29
• 9.18.30
• 9.18.31
• 9.18.32
• 9.20.0
• 9.20.1
• 9.20.2
• 9.20.3
• 9.20.4
• 9.21.0
• 9.21.1
• 9.21.2
• 9.21.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.isc.org/

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