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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2026-42960 EUVD-2026-31083GHSA-x7f7-rggg-4jvv

Possible cache poisoning via promiscuous records for the authority section

Published May 20, 2026 · Updated May 20, 2026 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to poisoning via promiscuous records for the authority section. Promiscuous RRSets that complement DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick Unbound to cache such records. If an adversary is able to attach such records in a reply (i.e., spoofed packet, fragmentation attack) he would be able to poison Unbound's cache. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting RRSets other than NS that are also accompanied by address records in a reply, for example MX. This could be achieved by trying to spoof a reply packet or fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then accept the relative address records in the additional section and cache them if the authority RRSet has enough trust at this point, i.e., in-zone data for the delegation point. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix that disregards address records from the additional section if they are not explicitly relevant only to authority NS records, mitigating the possible poison effect. This is a complement fix to CVE-2025-11411.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Unbound < 1.25.1 1.25.1

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 1.25.1-1 —
Debian 13 unbound 1.22.0-2+deb13u3 —
Debian 12 unbound No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS unbound 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 unbound 1.22.0-2ubuntu2.3 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS unbound 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.8 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS unbound 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS unbound 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS unbound 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS unbound 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS unbound 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 unbound +6 1.26.1-2.el10_3 RHSA-2026:97121
RHEL 9 unbound +4 1.26.1-1.el9_9 RHSA-2026:97497
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 unbound +7 1.25.1-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:20357

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 unbound +6 1.26.1-2.el10_3 RLSA-2026:97121
Rocky Linux 9 unbound +4 1.26.1-1.el9_9 RLSA-2026:97497
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
Show 8 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22160-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22160-1
SLE Micro 6.2 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22213-1
SLE Micro 5.5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed unbound 1.25.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10903-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21083-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 unbound 1.25.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 unbound 1.25.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 unbound 1.25.2-r0 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 unbound +5 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.12 ALAS2023-2026-1756
Amazon Linux 2 unbound +4 1.7.3-15.amzn2.0.14 ALAS2-2026-3322

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 unbound 1.25.1-1 —

Advisories 14

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