7.5

CVE-2023-5679: fedoraproject fedora Reachable Assertion

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2023-5679UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5679DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5679
Published 13-02-2024Last modified 28-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-5679 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Reachable Assertion vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 6
DSA-5621-1MGASA-2024-0038OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13687-1RHSA-2024:1647RHSA-2024:1648RHSA-2024:1781

Timeline

  1. 13-02-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale may cause `named` to crash with an assertion failure during recursive resolution, when both of these features are enabled. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

69%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.24% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.24%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Isc2 products
  • bind≥ 9.16.12, ≤ 9.16.45 | ≥ 9.18.0, ≤ 9.18.21 | ≥ 9.19.0, ≤ 9.19.19 | 9.16.12:s1 | 9.16.13:s1 | 9.16.14:s1 | 9.16.21:s1 | 9.16.32:s1 | 9.16.36:s1 | 9.16.43:s1 | 9.16.45:s1 | 9.18.11:s1 | 9.18.18:s1 | 9.18.21:s1
  • bind 9≥ 9.16.12, ≤ 9.16.45 | ≥ 9.18.0, ≤ 9.18.21 | ≥ 9.19.0, ≤ 9.19.19 | ≥ 9.16.12-S1, ≤ 9.16.45-S1 | ≥ 9.18.11-S1, ≤ 9.18.21-S1
Alpine1 product
  • bind≥ 9.16.12, < 9.16.48-r0 | ≥ 9.16.12, < 9.18.24-r0
Chainguard1 product
  • bind< 9.18.24-r0
Debian1 product
  • bind9< 1:9.18.24-1 | < 1:9.19.21-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Netapp1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • bind9< 1:9.18.18-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
Wolfi1 product
  • bind< 9.18.24-r0

8 vendors · 9 products

References

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