CVE•Published 2025-10-22•Modified 2026-10-08•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-8677
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
96
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 4% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Querying for records within a specially crafted zone containing certain malformed DNSKEY records can lead to CPU exhaustion. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 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-2025-8677Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-8677Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-8677Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-8677GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-8677" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2025-8677 on GitHub.