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rlsa-2026:36320
Vulnerability from osv_rocky
Published
2026-07-28 18:05
Modified
2026-07-29 18:08
Summary
Important: unbound security update
Details
The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.
Security Fix(es):
-
unbound: Unbound: Denial of Service via excessive EDNS options (CVE-2026-41292)
-
unbound: Unbound: Cache manipulation via 'ghost domain names' attack (CVE-2026-40622)
-
unbound: Unbound: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption with large DNS Resource Record Sets (CVE-2026-44390)
-
unbound: Unbound: Denial of Service due to degraded resolution performance in jostle logic (CVE-2026-42534)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Severity
7.5 (High)
Credits
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Red Hat
References
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CVE-2026-40622 (GCVE-0-2026-40622)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-20 09:18 – Updated: 2026-05-20 12:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Another 'ghost domain names' attack variant
Summary
NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a vulnerability of the 'ghost domain names' family of attacks that could extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value. Similar to other 'ghost domain names' attacks, an adversary needs to control a (ghost) zone and be able to query a vulnerable Unbound. A single client NS query can cause Unbound to overwrite the cached expired parent-side referral NS rrset with the child-side apex NS rrset and essentially extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value ('cache-max-ttl'). In configurations where 'harden-referral-path: yes' is used (non-default configuration), no client NS query is required since Unbound implicitly performs that query. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix that does not allow extension of TTLs for (parent) NS records regardless of their trust.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-20… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| NLnet Labs | Unbound |
Affected:
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Date Public
2026-05-20 00:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
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CVE-2026-41292 (GCVE-0-2026-41292)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-20 09:19 – Updated: 2026-07-29 12:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Long list of incoming EDNS options degrades performance
Summary
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
13 products
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Affected:
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|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 |
Unaffected:
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cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2 |
|
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Unaffected:
0:1.16.2-5.12.el8_10 , < *
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Unaffected:
0:1.24.2-3.el9_8.2 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images |
Unaffected:
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cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Data Grid 8 |
cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_data_grid:8 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack |
cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.2 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:17.1 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0 |
Date Public
2026-05-20 00:00
Credits
GitHub user N0zoM1z0
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
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CVE-2026-42534 (GCVE-0-2026-42534)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-20 09:19 – Updated: 2026-07-29 12:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Jostle logic bypass degrades resolution performance
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Impacted products
8 products
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Affected:
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|
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|
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Unaffected:
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|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Unaffected:
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images |
Unaffected:
1.25.1-2.hum1 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 |
Date Public
2026-05-20 00:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
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CVE-2026-44390 (GCVE-0-2026-44390)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-20 09:21 – Updated: 2026-07-29 12:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Unbounded name compression in certain cases causes degradation of service
Summary
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 has a vulnerability when handling replies with very large RRsets that Unbound needs to perform name compression for. Malicious upstream responses with very large RRsets with records that don't share a suffix above the root can cause Unbound to spend a considerable time applying name compression to downstream replies. This can lead to degraded performance and eventually denial of service in well orchestrated attacks. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability by querying Unbound for the specially crafted contents of a malicious zone with very large RRsets. Before Unbound replies to the query it will try to apply name compression which was an unbounded operation that could lock the CPU until the whole packet was complete. A compression limit was introduced in 1.21.1 for this but it didn't account for the case where records would not share any suffix above the root. That causes Unbound to go in a different code path because of the compression tree lookup failure and eventually not increment the compression counter for those operations. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix that increments the compression counter regardless of the compression tree lookup. This is a complement fix to CVE-2024-8508.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44390 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24013 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
8 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLnet Labs | Unbound |
Affected:
0 , < 1.25.1
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|
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|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
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0:1.16.2-5.12.el8_10 , < *
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Unaffected:
0:1.24.2-3.el9_8.2 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images |
Unaffected:
1.25.1-2.hum1 , < *
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cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 |
Date Public
2026-05-20 00:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
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