Allele Security Alert
ASA-2019-00591
Identifier(s)
ASA-2019-00591, CVE-2019-6475
Title
A flaw in mirror zone validity checking can allow zone data to be spoofed
Vendor(s)
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)
Product(s)
ISC BIND
Affected version(s)
BIND versions 9.14.0 before 9.14.7
BIND versions 9.15.0 before 9.15.5
Fixed version(s)
BIND version 9.14.7
BIND version 9.15.5
Proof of concept
Unknown
Description
Mirror zones are a BIND feature allowing recursive servers to pre-cache zone data provided by other servers. A mirror zone is similar to a zone of type secondary, except that its data is subject to DNSSEC validation before being used in answers, as if it had been looked up via traditional recursion, and when mirror zone data cannot be validated, BIND falls back to using traditional recursion instead of the mirror zone. However, an error in the validity checks for the incoming zone data can allow an on-path attacker to replace zone data that was validated with a configured trust anchor with forged data of the attacker’s choosing.
The mirror zone feature is most often used to serve a local copy of the root zone. If an attacker was able to insert themselves into the network path between a recursive server using a mirror zone and a root name server, this vulnerability could then be used to cause the recursive server to accept a copy of falsified root zone data.
An on-path attacker who manages to successfully exploit this vulnerability can replace the mirrored zone (usually the root) with data of their own choosing, effectively bypassing DNSSEC protection.
Technical details
Unknown
Credits
Unknown
Reference(s)
CVE-2019-6475: A flaw in mirror zone validity checking can allow zone data to be spoofed
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6475
CVE-2019-6475
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6475
CVE-2019-6475
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6475
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Last modified: October 31, 2019