CVE-2026-32665 (GCVE-0-2026-32665)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-22 13:04 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:24
VLAI
Title
Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass
Summary
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when downstream DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) is enabled, the first two bidirectional streams on a new QUIC connection (stream_id 0 and 4) bypass the per-stream 'quic-size' gate entirely, and large input buffers are allocated later, after only the 2-byte length prefix has been received from the initial streams. As a result, a remote client can make Unbound exceed the configured 'quic-size' limit with low-cost input. Using only one connection and two streams, each sending a declared 65535-byte length prefix and then holding the streams open, a client can already trivially make Unbound roughly allocate double that amount. This is a remote availability issue / memory-accounting bypass in the downstream DoQ implementation that leads to denial of service for new DoQ clients. This vulnerability needs Unbound to be compiled with DoQ support ('--with-libngtcp2') and the 'quic-port' to be configured for the listening interfaces.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-22 14:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
NLnet Labs CNA
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 66 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NLnet Labs Unbound Affected: 1.22.0 , < 1.25.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-07-22 00:00
Credits
N0zoM1z0 (GitHub user) Kunta Chu (Tsinghua University) Kaihua Wang (Tsinghua University) Jianjun Chen (Tsinghua University) Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks) Xuanchao Xie (University of Science and Technology of China) Lutong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Kaiping Xue (University of Science and Technology of China)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.