--- title: "CVE-2020-8624: update-policy rules of type \"subdomain\" are enforced in" slug: "cve-2020-8624" description: "CVE-2020-8624: update-policy rules of type \"subdomain\" are enforced incorrectly" updated: 2020-08-20T18:20:11Z published: 2020-08-20T18:20:11Z --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.isc.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CVE-2020-8624: update-policy rules of type "subdomain" are enforced incorrectly **CVE:** [CVE-2020-8624](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8624) **Document version:** 2.0 **Posting date:** 20 August 2020 **Program impacted:** [BIND](https://www.isc.org/bind/) **Versions affected:** 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 **Severity:** Low **Exploitable:** Remotely **Description:** Change 4885 inadvertently caused "update-policy" rules of type "subdomain" to be treated as if they were of type "zonesub", allowing updates to all parts of the zone along with the intended subdomain. **Impact:** 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. **CVSS Score:** 3.9 **CVSS Vector:** CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and to obtain your specific environmental score please visit: [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C&version=3.1](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C&version=3.1). **Workarounds:** No workarounds known. **Active exploits:** We are not aware of any active exploits but the issue has been described on a public bug tracker for a Linux distribution. **Solution:** Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND: * BIND 9.11.22 * BIND 9.16.6 * BIND 9.17.4 BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers. * BIND 9.11.22-S1 **Acknowledgments:** ISC would like to thank Joop Boonen of credativ GmbH for bringing this vulnerability to our attention. **Document revision history:** 1.0 Early Notification, 12 August 2020 1.1 Updated Posting Date, 17 August 2020 2.0 Public Announcement, 20 August 2020 **Related documents:** See our [BIND 9 Security Vulnerability Matrix](https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00913) for a complete listing of security vulnerabilities and versions affected. **Do you still have questions?** Questions regarding this advisory should go to [security-officer@isc.org](mailto:security-officer@isc.org). *To report a new issue, please encrypt your message using security-officer@isc.org's PGP key which can be found here: [https://www.isc.org/pgpkey/](https://www.isc.org/pgpkey/). If you are unable to use encrypted email, you may also report new issues at: [https://www.isc.org/reportbug/](https://www.isc.org/reportbug/).* **Note:** ISC patches only currently supported versions. When possible we indicate EOL versions affected. (For current information on which versions are actively supported, please see [https://www.isc.org/download/](https://www.isc.org/download/).) **ISC Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy:** Details of our current security advisory policy and practice can be found in the ISC Software Defect and Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy at [https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861](https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861). The Knowledgebase article [https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8624](https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8624) is the complete and official security advisory document. **Legal Disclaimer:** Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is providing this notice on an "AS IS" basis. No warranty or guarantee of any kind is expressed in this notice and none should be implied. ISC expressly excludes and disclaims any warranties regarding this notice or materials referred to in this notice, including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, absence of hidden defects, or of non-infringement. Your use or reliance on this notice or materials referred to in this notice is at your own risk. ISC may change this notice at any time. A stand-alone copy or paraphrase of the text of this document that omits the document URL is an uncontrolled copy. Uncontrolled copies may lack important information, be out of date, or contain factual errors.