CVE-2025-13878

Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause named to terminate unexpectedly

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 9.42 % · percentile 95 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-01-21
Updated: 2026-09-01
Assigner: isc
NVD status: Deferred

Description

Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause `named` to terminate unexpectedly. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.40 through 9.18.43, 9.20.13 through 9.20.17, 9.21.12 through 9.21.16, 9.18.40-S1 through 9.18.43-S1, and 9.20.13-S1 through 9.20.17-S1.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	isc
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat-SADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security-officer@isc.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-3599
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-13878

Affected products

Product	Versions
ISC · BIND 9	affected 9.18.40 ≤ 9.18.43 ; affected 9.20.13 ≤ 9.20.17 ; affected 9.21.12 ≤ 9.21.16 ; affected 9.18.40-S1 ≤ 9.18.43-S1 ; affected 9.20.13-S1 ≤ 9.20.17-S1

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD