CVE-2018-5736
An error in zone database reference counting can lead to an assertion failure if a server which is running an affected version of BIND…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 18.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An error in zone database reference counting can lead to an assertion failure if a server which is running an affected version of BIND attempts several transfers of a slave zone in quick succession. This defect could be deliberately exercised by an attacker who is permitted to cause a vulnerable server to initiate zone transfers (for example: by sending valid NOTIFY messages), causing the named process to exit after failing the assertion test. Affects BIND 9.12.0 and 9.12.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By isc
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 18.0% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 104386 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1040941 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01602 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-17505 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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