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OESA-2025-2687 (CVE-2025-11411)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-11-14 11:09 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:09 – Source website

Summary

unbound security update

Details

Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. It is designed to be fast and lean and incorporates modern features based on open standards. To help increase online privacy, Unbound supports DNS-over-TLS which allows clients to encrypt their communication. Unbound is available for most platforms such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS, Linux and Microsoft Windows. Unbound is a totally free, open source software under the BSD license. It doesn't make custom builds or provide specific features to paying customers only.

Security Fix(es):

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.24.0 is vulnerable to possible domain hijack attacks. Promiscuous NS RRSets that complement positive DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick resolvers to update their delegation information for the zone. Usually these RRSets are used to update the resolver's knowledge of the zone's name servers. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting NS RRSets (and possibly their respective address records) in a reply. This could be done for example by trying to spoof a packet or fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then proceed to update the NS RRSet data it already has since the new data has enough trust for it, i.e., in-zone data for the delegation point. Unbound 1.24.1 includes a fix that scrubs unsolicited NS RRSets (and their respective address records) from replies mitigating the possible poison effect.(CVE-2025-11411)

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11411	ADVISORY

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CVE-2025-11411 (GCVE-0-2025-11411)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 12:28 – Updated: 2025-12-05 10:56

Title

Possible domain hijacking via promiscuous records in the authority section

Summary

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.24.1 is vulnerable to possible domain hijack attacks. Promiscuous NS RRSets that complement positive DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick resolvers to update their delegation information for the zone. Usually these RRSets are used to update the resolver's knowledge of the zone's name servers. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting NS RRSets (and possibly their respective address records) in a reply. This could be done for example by trying to spoof a packet or fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then proceed to update the NS RRSet data it already has since the new data has enough trust for it, i.e., in-zone data for the delegation point. Unbound 1.24.1 includes a fix that scrubs unsolicited NS RRSets (and their respective address records) from replies mitigating the possible poison effect. Unbound 1.24.2 includes an additional fix that scrubs unsolicited NS RRSets (and their respective address records) from YXDOMAIN and non-referral nodata replies, further mitigating the possible poison effect.

Severity

5.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:P

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-22 13:20 UTC

CWE

CWE-349 - Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data

Assigner

NLnet Labs CNA

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 57 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-20…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/26/4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NLnet Labs	Unbound	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.24.1 (semver)

Date Public

2025-10-22 00:00

Credits

Yuxiao Wu (Tsinghua University) Yunyi Zhang (Tsinghua University) Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University) Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University) TaoFei Guo (Peking University) Yang Luo (Tsinghua University) JianJun Chen (Tsinghua University)

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