CVE•Published 2026-10-21•Modified 2026-10-26•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-96888

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

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 61% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference CWE-617Reachable Assertion

Description

A BIND resolver that is configured with both a "redirect" zone and "qname-minimization strict" may abort with an assertion failure while processing the redirect. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.29, 9.21.0 through 9.21.26, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.29-S1.

Timeline

Published 2026-10-21

Modified 2026-10-26

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB VulnCheck

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).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-96888

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-96888

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-96888

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

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CVE-2026-96888