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CVE-2026-96888

7.5 high SSVC exploitation: none Awaiting Analysis

A BIND resolver that is configured with both a "redirect" zone and "qname-minimization strict" may abort with an assertion failure while processing the redirect. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.29, 9.21.0 through 9.21.26, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.29-S1.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 6

  1. StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-22 17:36
  2. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 17:19
  3. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 18:17
  4. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:46
  5. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:21
  6. First seenCVSS 7.5 · iscNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:46

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 3