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dnskeygen in BIND 8.2.4 and earlier, and dnssec-keygen in...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 30, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 8, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

dnskeygen in BIND 8.2.4 and earlier, and dnssec-keygen in BIND 9.1.2 and earlier, set insecure permissions for a HMAC-MD5 shared secret key file used for DNS Transactional Signatures (TSIG), which allows attackers to obtain the keys and perform dynamic DNS updates.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 21, 2001
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 30, 2022
Last updated Feb 8, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.050%
(21st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2001-0497

GHSA ID

GHSA-r698-fc6p-rp6g

Source code

No known source code

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