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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-46582 EUVD-2026-47670GHSA-cj23-2crp-2xvv

A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path

Published Jul 22, 2026 · Updated Jul 22, 2026 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a replay of a wildcard rrset as another piece of data, could be briefly considered DNSSEC secure based only on the RRSIG validation and stored into cache, before later validation treats it as bogus based on NSEC validation. When the resolving thread puts secure on the rrset, and another thread that is on the serve expired path then picks up the updated rrset contents with the secure status for a reply, it can be used to change a specific record, next to a wildcard that could be covered by the wildcard, into the wildcard. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by having any DNSSEC-singed domain (irrelevant to the victim domain) and a CNAME wrapper record that points to a record next to a wildcard (that could be covered by the wildcard). Then quering Unbound for the wildcard sibling record would seed the secure message. A later (after expiry) query for the CNAME wrapper would need to resolve the target sibling record. If the wildcard replay is injected into the response, the wildcard rrset will update the expired sibling record with a secure status before completing proper wildcard validation with NSEC records and eventually treating the CNAME wrapper answer as bogus. The updated poisoned rrset is now secure and points to the wildcard. This vulnerability is explicit for the serve expired path and needs injection of the signed wildcard rrset without the NSEC accompanying rrset.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.0 – < 1.25.2 1.25.2

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 1.25.2-1 —
Debian 13 unbound 1.26.1-0+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
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 1.25.2-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:43588

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 SP7 unbound 1.25.2-150600.23.19.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3885-1
SLES 15 SP6 unbound 1.25.2-150600.23.19.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3885-1
SLES 15 SP5 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
SLES 15 SP4 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
Show 11 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 unbound 1.25.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23226-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23215-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 unbound 1.25.2-150600.23.19.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3885-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
SLES 16.0 unbound 1.25.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23226-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23215-1
SLE Micro 6.2 unbound 1.25.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23050-1
SLE Micro 6.1 unbound 1.25.2-slfo.1.1_1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23349-1
SLE Micro 6.0 unbound 1.25.2-1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23360-1
SLE Micro 5.5 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 unbound 1.25.2-150100.10.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3884-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed unbound 1.25.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11380-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 unbound 1.25.2-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21550-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 unbound 1.25.2-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.amzn2023.0.13 ALAS2023-2026-2033

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 unbound 1.25.2-1 —

Advisories 17

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