CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-41292

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-20 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-05-20
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Red
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1050, CWE-407, CWE-770

Description

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).

Affected configurations

• nlnetlabs unbound (< 1.25.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-1050 Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop weakness
  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References