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CVE-2008-1447

6.8 mediumEPSS 95%

The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and other implementations allow remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic via a birthday attack that uses in-bailiwick referrals to conduct cache poisoning against recursive resolvers, related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports, aka "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability" or "the Kaminsky bug."

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.8 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-331
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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