7.5 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): High (H)
- Availability (A): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
- Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via RRSIG.labels manipulation
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, insufficient validation of the RRSIG.Labels field combined with premature cache writes during RFC 8198 aggressive NSEC processing leads to cache poisoning that permits a malicious actor controlling a single delegated zone to poison arbitrary sibling zones under NSEC-signed parent domains. A malicious actor with one registered domain under an NSEC-signed TLD can serve malicious insecure DNS responses for unrelated sibling domains (sharing the same parent zone). Arbitrary delegations that do not exist under the parent domain and are covered by the parent's NSEC chain can be brought into insecure existence by fraudulent wildcard DS records (less labels than expected, unknown algorithm) from the malicious sibling domain. This allows the malicious actor to inject insecure wildcard records for those delegations.
References
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https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-44690.txt vendor-advisory
Affected products
- <1.25.2
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.unbound
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.unbound-full
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.unbound-with-systemd
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.luaPackages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua51Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua52Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua53Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua54Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua55Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.luajitPackages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.prometheus-unbound-exporter
Prometheus exporter for Unbound DNS resolver
pkgs.python313Packages.pyunbound
Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.python314Packages.pyunbound
Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbound-generics
Support for programming with names and binders using GHC Generics
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbounded-delays
Unbounded thread delays and timeouts
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbound-kind-generics
Support for programming with names and binders using kind-generics
Package maintainers
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@mweinelt Martin Weinelt <hexa@darmstadt.ccc.de>
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@Scrumplex Sefa Eyeoglu <contact@scrumplex.net>