CVE-2026-19662: ISC BIND 9

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker may be able to cause a `named` resolver to abort. The attack requires inducing the victim resolver to send multiple queries for a DNSSEC-signed zone hosted by an authoritative server under the control of the attacker. If the auth responds with a particular sequence of crafted answers, and those answers arrive in a particular order with particular timing, the `named` resolver will encounter a use-after-free bug, and abort. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.27, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.27-S1.

Affected products

• ISC BIND 9: from 9.11.0, up to and including 9.18.50; from 9.20.0, up to and including 9.20.27; from 9.11.3-S1, up to and including 9.18.50-S1; from 9.20.9-S1, up to and including 9.20.27-S1

Published 2026-09-16. Last modified 2026-09-17.