CVE-2026-55717 (GCVE-0-2026-55717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-22 13:09 – Updated: 2026-07-22 14:07
VLAI
Title
'serve-expired-client-timeout' and 'response-ip' CNAME redirect could lead to a crash
Summary
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.10.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when 'serve-expired: yes' is set together with a 'response-ip: <net> redirect' /'response-ip-data: <net> CNAME <target>' rule (or the RPZ 'rpz-cname-override' equivalent), a remote client who controls any delegated domain can crash the daemon. The serve-expired-client-timeout callback runs a two-pass loop to chase the respip-generated CNAME alias; on the second pass it resets 'alias_rrset' but not 'partial_rep'. Later, this inconsistency leads to a NULL pointer dereference and an eventual crash. A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability by controlling any zone that replies with an A/AAAA record that falls inside the configured response-ip/rpz subnet. By delaying the answer when the previous record has expired, the vulnerable path of 'serve-expired-client-timeout' is taken leading to denial of service via the server crash.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NLnet Labs Unbound Affected: 1.10.0 , < 1.25.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-07-22 00:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks) Xin Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University) Jiapeng Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University) Jiajia Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
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