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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8624: Improper Privilege Management

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-8624: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/20/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bind

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