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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2017-3141 json

Windows service and uninstall paths are not quoted when BIND is installed

published 2019-01-16 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12282

cvss
7.2
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. Affects BIND 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1.

Patch / fix

  • bind openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.16.20-1.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10650-1

  • bind Alpine 3.7, Alpine 3.6 9.11.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-3141

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-3141 updated cvss 7.2

bind: BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which allows privilege escalation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind, bind97 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot, bind-pkcs11, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-42121)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42121 BIND 9.10.5 - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation local, 2017-06-05

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • ISC BIND 9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

References

Sources

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