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CVE-2026-42944

· Published 20/05/2026 10:16 · Modified 20/05/2026 22:50

Labels: CVE-2026-42944 2026-05-20CVE-2026-42944CWE-197[email protected]

Essential information

Published
20/05/2026 10:16
Modified
20/05/2026 22:50
Author
Creator
CVSS
8.7 HIGH (v3) 8.7 HIGH (v4.0)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector

CVSS metrics

Description

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.14.0 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a vulnerability that results in heap overflow when encoding multiple NSID and/or DNS Cookie EDNS and/or EDNS Padding options in the reply packet. The relevant options ('nsid', 'answer-cookie', 'pad-responses' (default)) need to be enabled for the vulnerability to be exploited. An adversary who can query Unbound can exploit the vulnerability by attaching multiple NSID and/or DNS Cookie EDNS and/or EDNS Padding options to the query. A flaw in the size calculation of the EDNS field truncates the correct value which allows the encoder to overflow the available space when writing. Those two combined lead to a heap overflow write of Unbound controlled data and eventually a crash. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to de-duplicate the EDNS options and a fix to prevent truncation of the EDNS field size calculation.

NVD status

Status
Analyzed — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
[email protected]
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
nlnetlabs / unbound cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:unbound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References