CVE-2015-5477High· 7.5▾ Abyssal⚠ Exploited in the wildPoC availablenamed in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P2 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit) via TKEY queries.
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 41.3 · likelihood 18.3 · exploitation 25
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 3 sources. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA's ADP record at CVE.org: whether exploitation is observed, whether an attack can be automated, and how much of the system is at stake.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Federal remediation due Oct 11, 2026
91%
Last analysed / modified upstream
Exploit-DB · 7 GitHub repos · Metasploit ×1 (last check)
Added to the CISA catalog on Oct 8, 2026. Federal remediation due Oct 11, 2026. View catalog ↗
named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P2 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit) via TKEY queries.
bind <= 9.9.7bind <= 9.10.2Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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