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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-35501 EUVD-2026-107151GHSA-mh74-9w87-h7vx

Bypass of a configured island trust anchor underneath an insecure parent from an atacker-controlled NSEC record.

Published Oct 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor with a forged NSEC reply with the SOA bit cleared can trick Unbound to treat the configured trust island as insecure. This happens because the DNSSEC validator in Unbound accepts and caches the NSEC insecure response bypassing the RRSIG validation that the validator was supposed to do. The acceptance of the NSEC record at the trust anchor apex was allowed due to and old fix for type DS and NSEC queries from clients when trust anchor for that name existed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 – < 1.26.2 1.26.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 unbound 1.26.2-1 —
Debian 13 unbound 1.26.2-0+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 unbound No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed unbound 1.26.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12257-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 unbound +5 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 unbound 1.26.2-1 —

Advisories 3

References