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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2002-1220 json

BIND 8.3.x through 8.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (termination due to assertion failure) via a request for a su…

published 2002-11-29 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1204

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.6%
EPSS 9.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

BIND 8.3.x through 8.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (termination due to assertion failure) via a request for a subdomain that does not exist, with an OPT resource record with a large UDP payload size.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22011)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22011 ISC BIND 8.3.x - OPT Record Large UDP Denial of Service dos, 2002-11-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.