A newly disclosed security flaw has put more than 706,000 BIND 9 DNS resolvers worldwide at risk of cache poisoning attacks, according to an advisory published by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) on October 22, 2025. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-40778, carries a CVSS v3.1 severity score of 8.6 (High) and could enable remote attackers to inject forged DNS records into resolver caches.
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