Is CVE-2014-8500 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2014-8500 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2014-8500?

CVE-2014-8500 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2014-8500?

CVE-2014-8500 has an EPSS score of 65.68% (99th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2014-8500

HIGHEPSS 99th pctl

7.8

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.

CWE-399

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

65.68%probability of exploitation in 30 days

99thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 99% of all known CVEs.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html
http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10676
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00038.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144000632319155&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0078.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62064
http://secunia.com/advisories/62122
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1031311
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:165
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71590
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/
https://support.apple.com/HT205219

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-06.