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NLnet Labs Unbound CVE-2026-44608

| EUVD-2026-31087 MEDIUM
Improper Resource Locking (CWE-413)
2026-05-20 sep@nlnetlabs.nl GHSA-fx8q-9cm5-75v9
4.6
CVSS 4.0
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Amber
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
X

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
May 20, 2026 - 11:02 EUVD
Analysis Generated
May 20, 2026 - 10:35 vuln.today

DescriptionNVD

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.14.0 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a locking inconsistency vulnerability that when certain conditions are met (multi-threaded, RPZ XFR reload, RPZ zone with 'rpz-nsip'/'rpz-nsdname' triggers) it could result in heap use-after-free and eventual crash. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability if conditions are first met on a vulnerable Unbound, i.e., multi-threaded, an RPZ zone with 'rpz-nsip'/'rpz-nsdname' triggers and an ongoing XFR for that RPZ zone. Local RPZ files do not trigger the vulnerability. If the timing is right and an XFR happens at the same time another thread needs to read that RPZ zone, the reader may not hold the lock long enough and the thread applying the XFR may free objects that the reader is about to walk causing the use-after-free. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to the locking code.

AnalysisAI

Heap use-after-free in Unbound's RPZ (Response Policy Zone) subsystem crashes the DNS resolver under a specific race condition affecting multi-threaded deployments. Versions 1.14.0 through 1.25.0 are affected when an RPZ zone with 'rpz-nsip' or 'rpz-nsdname' triggers is served via XFR (zone transfer) and a simultaneous read occurs in another thread. …

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