Is CVE-2026-5946 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-5946 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-5946?

CVE-2026-5946 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (Important).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-5946?

CVE-2026-5946 has an EPSS score of 1.81% (76th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2026-5946?

Upgrade bind9 on debian 12 to 1:9.18.49-1~deb12u1 or later. Fixes are available for 116 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-5946

HIGHEPSS 76th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Multiple flaws have been identified in `named` related to the handling of DNS messages whose CLASS is not Internet (`IN`) — for example, `CHAOS` or `HESIOD`, or DNS messages that specify meta-classes (`ANY` or `NONE`) in the question section. Specially crafted requests reaching the affected code paths — recursion, dynamic updates (`UPDATE`), zone change notifications (`NOTIFY`), or processing of `IN`-specific record types in non-`IN` data — can cause assertion failures in `named`. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.48, 9.20.0 through 9.20.22, 9.21.0 through 9.21.21, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.48-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.22-S1.

CWE-20Improper Input Validation CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read CWE-617 CWE-754 CWE-843Type Confusion CWE-1287Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

How to fix

Remediation Available

bind9Debian

Fixed in:1:9.18.49-1~deb12u1CVE-2026-5946

Fixed in:1:9.20.23-1~deb13u1CVE-2026-5946

Fixed in:1:9.20.23-1CVE-2026-5946

bindRocky

Fixed in:32:9.18.33-15.el10_2.2RHSA-2026:24338

Fixed in:32:9.11.36-16.el8_10.8RHSA-2026:24339

Fixed in:main@noarchRHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@x86_64RHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@srcRHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@aarch64RHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:32:9.16.23-40.el9_8.2RHSA-2026:24367

bindRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:32:9.18.33-15.el10_2.2RHSA-2026:24338

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Fixed in:main@noarchRHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@x86_64RHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@srcRHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:main@aarch64RHSA-2026:20334

Fixed in:32:9.16.23-40.el9_8.2RHSA-2026:24367

bind-chrootRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-chrootRocky

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bind-debuginfoRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-debugsourceRocky

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bind-debugsourceRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-develRocky

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bind-dnssec-docRocky

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bind-dnssec-utilsRocky

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bind-dnssec-utilsRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-dnssec-utils-debuginfoRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-dnssec-utils-debuginfoRocky

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bind-docRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-docRocky

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bind-export-develRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-libs-liteRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-licenseRocky

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bind-pkcs11Rocky

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bind-pkcs11-debuginfoRocky

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bind-pkcs11-utilsRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-pkcs11-utilsRocky

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bind-pkcs11-utils-debuginfoRocky

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bind-sdbRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-utilsRed Hat / RHEL

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bind-utilsRocky

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bind-utils-debuginfoRocky

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bind9.16Rocky

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bind9.16-chrootRocky

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bind9.16-chrootRed Hat / RHEL

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bind9.16-debuginfoRed Hat / RHEL

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bind9.16-debuginfoRocky

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bind9.16-debugsourceRocky

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bind9.16-debugsourceRed Hat / RHEL

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bind9.16-develRed Hat / RHEL

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bind9.16-develRocky

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bind9.16-dnssec-utilsRocky

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bind9.16-libs-debuginfoRocky

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bind9.16-licenseRocky

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bind9.16-utilsRocky

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bind9.18Rocky

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python3-bindRed Hat / RHEL

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python3-bindRocky

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python3-bind9.16Rocky

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python3-bind9.16Red Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.6RHSA-2026:23360

bind9Ubuntu

Fixed in:1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.22.04.4USN-8293-1

Fixed in:1:9.18.39-0ubuntu0.24.04.5USN-8293-1

Fixed in:1:9.20.11-1ubuntu2.4USN-8293-1

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

1.81%probability of exploitation in 30 days

76thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 76% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch3

Vendor Advisory1

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Other references9

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