CVE-2009-0265

7.5
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
2.47%
LOW RiskEPSS (84th percentile)

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.

Published: 1/26/2009
Modified: 6/16/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2 Score

5

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

2.47%LOW Exploitation Risk
84th percentile

This vulnerability has a 2.47% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 84% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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