CVE-2026-42944
Essential information
- Published
- 20/05/2026 10:16
- Modified
- 20/05/2026 22:50
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 8.7 HIGH (v3) 8.7 HIGH (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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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:X/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 metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- NONE
- Confidentiality (S)
- NONE
- Integrity (V)
- NONE
- Integrity (S)
- NONE
- Availability (V)
- HIGH
- Availability (S)
- NONE
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
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
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| nlnetlabs / unbound | cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:unbound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |