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Permalink CVE-2026-54478
3.7 LOW
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): None (N)
  • Integrity (I): Low (L)
  • Availability (A): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • 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): Low (L)
  • Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
created 1 month, 1 week ago Activity log
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DNS Cookie bypass when combined with proxy-protocol use

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a 'proxy-protocol-port' interface with 'answer-cookie: yes', the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxy's wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a given proxy node therefore validates for every PROXYv2-declared source behind that node. On a UDP+proxy-protocol front, an off-path attacker can harvest one cookie with a single legitimate query, then replay it under any spoofed source and pass DNS Cookie checks that were deployed to defeat this in the first place.

Affected products

Unbound
  • <1.25.2

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.unbound

Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -

pkgs.unbound-full

Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -

pkgs.python313Packages.pyunbound

Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -

pkgs.python314Packages.pyunbound

Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver

  • nixos-unstable -
  • nixos-26.05 -

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