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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-50106 EUVD-2026-107152GHSA-pj55-6fvm-845h

Possible insecure NXDOMAIN for non-existing records under a configured island trust anchor underneath an insecure parent.

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

Description

When NLnet Labs Unbound 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 who can deliver one forged NXDOMAIN response for a name inside the island, with the NSEC/SOA RRSIG 'SignerName' set to the insecure parent, tricks Unbound's validator to use the root trust anchor instead, and consecutively the insecure parent, thus causing that record to be treated as insecure and denying existence for records in the trust island.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Unbound < 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

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