Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-40778

High

Published: 22 October 2025

Published
22 October 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0001 0.3th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-40778 is a high-severity Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data (CWE-349) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 0.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability 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,…

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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.

CWE(s)
CWE-349

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References