CVE•Published 2025-10-22•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-40778
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.6
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
50
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 50% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forged data into the cache. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.
Timeline
Published 2025-10-22
Modified 2026-10-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-40778Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-40778Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-40778Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-40778GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-40778" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (2)
CVE-2025-407782 repos