CVE-2019-6475

A flaw in mirror zone validity checking can allow zone data to be spoofed

Published Oct 17, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
Mirror zones are a BIND feature allowing recursive servers to pre-cache zone data provided by other servers. A mirror zone is similar to a zone of type secondary, except that its data is subject to DNSSEC validation before being used in answers, as if it had been looked up via traditional recursion, and when mirror zone data cannot be validated, BIND falls back to using traditional recursion instead of the mirror zone. However, an error in the validity checks for the incoming zone data can allow an on-path attacker to replace zone data that was validated with a configured trust anchor with forged data of the attacker's choosing. The mirror zone feature is most often used to serve a local copy of the root zone. If an attacker was able to insert themselves into the network path between a recursive server using a mirror zone and a root name server, this vulnerability could then be used to cause the recursive server to accept a copy of falsified root zone data. This affects BIND versions 9.14.0 up to 9.14.6, and 9.15.0 up to 9.15.4.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND: + BIND 9.14.7 + BIND 9.15.5


Vendor Workaround

The vulnerability can be avoided by not using mirror zones.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-16035 Mirror zones are a BIND feature allowing recursive servers to pre-cache zone data provided by other servers. A mirror zone is similar to a zone of type secondary, except that its data is subject to DNSSEC validation before being used in answers, as if it had been looked up via traditional recursion, and when mirror zone data cannot be validated, BIND falls back to using traditional recursion instead of the mirror zone. However, an error in the validity checks for the incoming zone data can allow an on-path attacker to replace zone data that was validated with a configured trust anchor with forged data of the attacker's choosing. The mirror zone feature is most often used to serve a local copy of the root zone. If an attacker was able to insert themselves into the network path between a recursive server using a mirror zone and a root name server, this vulnerability could then be used to cause the recursive server to accept a copy of falsified root zone data. This affects BIND versions 9.14.0 up to 9.14.6, and 9.15.0 up to 9.15.4.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
isc
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 5:54 PM
Reserved
Jan 16, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 17, 2019, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:39 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 16, 2019, 12:00 AM