CVE-2026-81736: ISC BIND 9

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

If a BIND resolver has cached a tree of SVCB/HTTPS AliasMode records, and is then queried for the root of that tree, the resolver will spend disproportionate CPU time constructing the response. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.27, 9.21.0 through 9.21.25, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.27-S1.

Affected products

• ISC BIND 9: from 9.18.0, up to and including 9.18.50; from 9.20.0, up to and including 9.20.27; from 9.21.0, up to and including 9.21.25; from 9.18.11-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.