CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-54478
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-290
Description
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 configurations
• nlnetlabs unbound (>= 1.18.0 < 1.25.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness
References
- https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-54478.txt Vendor Advisory