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CVE-2026-42960

CVSS 10.0 CRITICALEPSS 8.2%CWE-349

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to poisoning via promiscuous records for the authority section. Promiscuous RRSets that complement DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick Unbound to cache such records. If an adversary is able to attach such records in a reply (i.e., spoofed packet, fragmentation attack) he would be able to poison Unbound's cache. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting RRSets other than NS that are also accompanied by address records in a reply, for example MX. This could be achieved by tryi...

Published 2026-05-20 · last modified 2026-05-20

details

CISA KEV status
Not in catalog
CVSS v3
10.0 / CRITICAL
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS
8.2% percentile (score 0.0003)
CWE
CWE-349

source mentions 2

source consensus

  • Ubuntu Security Notices
  • Bluesky
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