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CVE-2026-64194 Jul 20, 17:55 HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in the Net::DNS Perl library (versions through 1.55) lets a remote attacker crash any application that parses untrusted DNS messages by sending a crafted response with a deeply nested chain of compression pointers. Net::DNS::DomainName::decode recurses once per pointer with no depth cap, so a chain of ~8191 (UDP/14-bit) to ~32767 (TCP/16-bit) two-byte pointers exhausts Perl's C stack and triggers SIGSEGV. EPSS is low (0.20%, 10th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though CPANSec/oss-security disclosure provides enough detail to reconstruct a trigger.

Denial Of Service Net Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-64193 Jul 20, 17:54 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Eval-based command injection in the Net::DNS module for Perl (versions through 1.55) lets a malicious or man-in-the-middle DNS server run arbitrary shell commands on a client that parses an EDNS EXTENDED-ERROR option. The EXTRA-TEXT field is tokenised and passed to Perl's eval with escaping for $ and @ but not backticks, so a crafted response reaching option('EXTENDED-ERROR') in array context executes attacker-supplied commands. Rated CVSS 9.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the advisory publishes a working {0:`"<command>"`} payload, EPSS is low at 0.41%, and it is not in CISA KEV.

Code Injection Red Hat Suse Net Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-42959 May 20, 10:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial of service in NLnet Labs Unbound recursive DNS resolver (versions up to and including 1.25.0) allows an attacker controlling a DNSSEC-signed domain to crash the resolver process with a single crafted query. The DNSSEC validator uses an incorrect counter when computing write offsets for ADDITIONAL section rrsets while building chase-reply messages, leaving an uninitialized pointer that is later dereferenced. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is fixed in Unbound 1.25.1.

Denial Of Service Memory Corruption Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.7
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-42944 May 20, 10:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap overflow denial-of-service in NLnet Labs Unbound recursive DNS resolver versions 1.14.0 through 1.25.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the resolver by sending DNS queries containing multiple NSID, DNS Cookie, and/or EDNS Padding options. The flaw stems from a numeric truncation in EDNS field size calculation that lets attacker-influenced data overflow the response buffer. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and not listed in CISA KEV, but the impact is service-wide DNS outage for any user of an affected resolver.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.7
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-33278 May 20, 10:16 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Use-after-free in the DNSSEC validator of NLnet Labs Unbound resolver versions 1.19.1 through 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to crash the daemon or potentially achieve arbitrary code execution by serving a malicious signed zone to a vulnerable resolver. The flaw stems from a struct-assignment bug during deep copying of response messages when DS sub-queries suspend validation under NSEC3 computational budget exhaustion. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 9.1 with network attack vector and no required privileges or user interaction makes this a high-priority patching target for any operator running a recursive Unbound resolver.

RCE Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption Unbound +1
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
9.1
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-44608 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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. The crash is remotely triggerable by timing a DNS query against an in-progress XFR, but requires multiple co-occurring non-default conditions; no public exploit exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
4.6
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-44390 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust CPU resources by querying for content from a specially crafted malicious DNS zone containing very large RRsets whose records share no suffix above the root. The name compression logic fails to increment its bounding counter in this edge-case code path, causing an unbounded CPU-locking loop until packet construction completes. This is a complement fix to CVE-2024-8508, which introduced a compression limit in 1.21.1 that did not cover this specific bypass scenario; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.9
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-42960 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

DNS cache poisoning in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows an adjacent-network attacker to inject malicious resource records into the resolver's cache by exploiting insufficient validation of authority-section RRSets. By attaching forged non-NS RRSets (such as MX records) with accompanying address records in spoofed or fragmented DNS replies, an attacker can trick Unbound into caching poisoned entries when the authority RRSet carries sufficient trust as in-zone delegation data. Publicly available proof-of-concept exploit code exists (CVSS 4.0 E:P); this is a complement fix to CVE-2025-11411, meaning systems that patched the prior vulnerability but have not upgraded to 1.25.1 remain exposed.

Code Injection Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
5.7
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-42923 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unbound DNS resolver up to and including version 1.25.0 exposes a denial-of-service condition in its DNSSEC validation stack, specifically in the negative cache code path used to look up DS records. An adversary who controls a DNSSEC-signed zone can craft NSEC3 records with high-but-permissible iteration counts for child delegations, causing any vulnerable Unbound instance that queries those records to perform unbounded SHA-1 hash computations while holding a global negative cache lock - blocking all other threads that need cache access. No public exploit code exists and this is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis, but coordinated query floods against the vulnerable code path could escalate a single-instance slowdown into a full denial of service.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.9
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-42534 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Resolution performance degradation in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows an unauthenticated remote attacker - who also controls a malicious or slow authoritative nameserver - to subvert the jostle logic designed to evict stalled queries, ultimately causing denial of resolution service. The jostle mechanism, which activates when the num-queries-per-thread limit is reached, is bypassed because retransmitted duplicate queries reset the aging timestamp to the latest duplicate rather than preserving the original query start time, preventing aged queries from being correctly identified and replaced. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; however, the vendor has confirmed the issue and released a patch in version 1.25.1.

Information Disclosure Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.9
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-41292 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unbound DNS resolver versions up to and including 1.25.0 allow remote unauthenticated attackers to degrade or deny service by sending DNS queries carrying abnormally large numbers of EDNS options, causing resolver threads to become occupied with unbounded parsing and internal data structure allocation. Coordinated multi-source attacks amplify thread exhaustion into full denial of service for legitimate DNS clients. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; vendor-released patch is available in Unbound 1.25.1, which enforces a hard cap of 100 incoming EDNS options.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.6
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-40622 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Ghost domain name extension in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 through 1.25.0 allows an adversary controlling an expired ghost zone to artificially prolong its resolvability by causing Unbound to overwrite the cached parent-side referral NS rrset with the child-side apex NS rrset, extending the ghost domain window by up to one full cache-max-ttl interval. The attack requires the adversary to control the target ghost zone and issue a single NS query to a vulnerable resolver; in non-default configurations using 'harden-referral-path: yes', no external query is needed as Unbound performs the triggering lookup internally. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing exists; the CVSS 4.0 Exploit Maturity is rated 'Unreported', though the integrity impact on DNS resolution is high (VI:H) and represents a meaningful trust boundary violation.

Information Disclosure Red Hat Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
6.6
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2026-32792 May 20, 10:16 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Heap out-of-bounds read in Unbound's DNSCrypt packet handling allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to potentially crash the resolver with a single malformed query, causing denial of service. Affected are all Unbound installations from version 1.6.2 through 1.25.0 that were compiled with the optional '--enable-dnscrypt' flag. The crash is probabilistic rather than guaranteed - whether the out-of-bounds read escalates to a heap overflow depends entirely on the memory allocator behavior and heap layout at runtime; absent a crash, Unbound's own packet validation will discard the offending query. No public exploit exists and no active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
4.6
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2024-1622 Feb 26, 16:27 HIGH This Week

Due to a mistake in error checking, Routinator will terminate when an incoming RTR connection is reset by the peer too quickly after opening. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Routinator Fedoraproject Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.0%
CVE-2023-39916 Sep 13, 15:15 Cargo MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NLnet Labs’ Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.12.1 as well as 0.14.0 up to and including 0.14.2 contains a possible path traversal vulnerability in the optional, off-by-default. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Path Traversal Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2023-39915 Sep 13, 15:15 HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs' Routinator up to and including version 0.12.1 may crash when trying to parse certain malformed RPKI objects. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2023-39914 Sep 13, 15:15 Cargo HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs' bcder library up to and including version 0.7.2 panics while decoding certain invalid input data rather than rejecting the data with an error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Bcder Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.6%
CVE-2023-0158 Jan 17, 17:15 HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs Krill supports direct access to the RRDP repository content through its built-in web server at the "/rrdp" endpoint. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Krill Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.7%
CVE-2022-3204 Sep 26, 14:15 HIGH This Week

A vulnerability named 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack) has been discovered in various DNS resolving software. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Fedora Unbound Fedoraproject Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.3%
CVE-2022-3029 Sep 13, 16:15 Cargo HIGH PATCH This Week

In NLnet Labs Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.11.2, due to a mistake in error handling, data in RRDP snapshot and delta files that isn’t correctly base 64 encoded is treated as a fatal error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.7%
CVE-2022-30699 Aug 01, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Unbound Fedoraproject Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.9%
CVE-2022-30698 Aug 01, 15:15 MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Unbound Fedoraproject Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
6.5
EPSS
0.9%
CVE-2021-43174 Nov 09, 17:15 Cargo HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.2%
CVE-2021-43173 Nov 09, 17:15 HIGH This Week

In NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2, a validation run can be delayed significantly by an RRDP repository by not answering but slowly drip-feeding bytes to keep the connection alive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Debian Debian Linux Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.4%
CVE-2021-43172 Nov 09, 17:15 Cargo HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2 happily processes a chain of RRDP repositories of infinite length causing it to never finish a validation run. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.2%
CVE-2021-41531 Sep 21, 14:15 HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.0 produces invalid RTR payload if an RPKI CA uses too large values in the max-length parameter in a ROA. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.9%
CVE-2020-28935 Dec 07, 22:15 MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.12.0, and NLnet Labs NSD, up to and including version 4.3.3, contain a local vulnerability that would allow for a local symlink attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux Unbound Name Server Daemon +1
NVD
CVSS 3.1
5.5
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2020-10772 Nov 27, 18:15 HIGH This Week

An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Red Hat Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
1.3%
CVE-2020-17366 Aug 05, 22:15 HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in NLnet Labs Routinator 0.1.0 through 0.7.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.4
EPSS
0.7%
CVE-2020-12663 May 19, 14:15 HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.10.1 has an infinite loop via malformed DNS answers received from upstream servers. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical Debian Linux Fedora +6
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
3.6%
CVE-2020-12662 May 19, 14:15 HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical Debian Linux Fedora +6
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
3.2%
CVE-2019-18934 Nov 19, 18:15 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Unbound 1.6.4 through 1.9.4 contain a vulnerability in the ipsec module that can cause shell code execution after receiving a specially crafted answer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

RCE Command Injection Fedora Leap Opensuse +3
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.3
EPSS
3.2%
CVE-2019-16866 Oct 03, 19:15 HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Ubuntu Linux Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
3.5%
CVE-2019-13207 Jul 03, 20:15 CRITICAL POC Act Now

nsd-checkzone in NLnet Labs NSD 4.2.0 has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow in the dname_concatenate() function in dname.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Name Server Daemon Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.0
9.8
EPSS
2.0%
CVE-2017-1000232 Nov 17, 04:29 CRITICAL POC Act Now

A double-free vulnerability in str2host.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.0
9.8
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2017-1000231 Nov 17, 04:29 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A double-free vulnerability in parse.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Information Disclosure Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 3.0
9.8
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2016-6173 Feb 09, 15:59 HIGH This Week

NSD before 4.1.11 allows remote DNS master servers to cause a denial of service (/tmp disk consumption and slave server crash) via a zone transfer with unlimited data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Nsd Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.0
7.5
EPSS
3.4%
CVE-2014-8602 Dec 11, 02:59 MEDIUM PATCH This Month

iterator.c in NLnet Labs Unbound before 1.5.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large or infinite. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical Debian Linux Ubuntu Linux +2
NVD
CVSS 2.0
4.3
EPSS
7.6%
CVE-2014-3209 Nov 16, 01:59 LOW Monitor

The ldns-keygen tool in ldns 1.6.x uses the current umask to set the privileges of the private key, which might allow local users to obtain the private key by reading the file. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 2.0
2.1
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2012-2978 Jul 27, 10:27 MEDIUM This Month

query.c in NSD 3.0.x through 3.0.8, 3.1.x through 3.1.1, and 3.2.x before 3.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and child process crash) via a crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Nsd Nlnetlabs
NVD
CVSS 2.0
5.0
EPSS
1.4%
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in the Net::DNS Perl library (versions through 1.55) lets a remote attacker crash any application that parses untrusted DNS messages by sending a crafted response with a deeply nested chain of compression pointers. Net::DNS::DomainName::decode recurses once per pointer with no depth cap, so a chain of ~8191 (UDP/14-bit) to ~32767 (TCP/16-bit) two-byte pointers exhausts Perl's C stack and triggers SIGSEGV. EPSS is low (0.20%, 10th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though CPANSec/oss-security disclosure provides enough detail to reconstruct a trigger.

Denial Of Service Net Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Eval-based command injection in the Net::DNS module for Perl (versions through 1.55) lets a malicious or man-in-the-middle DNS server run arbitrary shell commands on a client that parses an EDNS EXTENDED-ERROR option. The EXTRA-TEXT field is tokenised and passed to Perl's eval with escaping for $ and @ but not backticks, so a crafted response reaching option('EXTENDED-ERROR') in array context executes attacker-supplied commands. Rated CVSS 9.8; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the advisory publishes a working {0:`"<command>"`} payload, EPSS is low at 0.41%, and it is not in CISA KEV.

Code Injection Red Hat Suse +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial of service in NLnet Labs Unbound recursive DNS resolver (versions up to and including 1.25.0) allows an attacker controlling a DNSSEC-signed domain to crash the resolver process with a single crafted query. The DNSSEC validator uses an incorrect counter when computing write offsets for ADDITIONAL section rrsets while building chase-reply messages, leaving an uninitialized pointer that is later dereferenced. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is fixed in Unbound 1.25.1.

Denial Of Service Memory Corruption Unbound +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap overflow denial-of-service in NLnet Labs Unbound recursive DNS resolver versions 1.14.0 through 1.25.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the resolver by sending DNS queries containing multiple NSID, DNS Cookie, and/or EDNS Padding options. The flaw stems from a numeric truncation in EDNS field size calculation that lets attacker-influenced data overflow the response buffer. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and not listed in CISA KEV, but the impact is service-wide DNS outage for any user of an affected resolver.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Use-after-free in the DNSSEC validator of NLnet Labs Unbound resolver versions 1.19.1 through 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to crash the daemon or potentially achieve arbitrary code execution by serving a malicious signed zone to a vulnerable resolver. The flaw stems from a struct-assignment bug during deep copying of response messages when DS sub-queries suspend validation under NSEC3 computational budget exhaustion. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 9.1 with network attack vector and no required privileges or user interaction makes this a high-priority patching target for any operator running a recursive Unbound resolver.

RCE Denial Of Service Use After Free +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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. The crash is remotely triggerable by timing a DNS query against an in-progress XFR, but requires multiple co-occurring non-default conditions; no public exploit exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust CPU resources by querying for content from a specially crafted malicious DNS zone containing very large RRsets whose records share no suffix above the root. The name compression logic fails to increment its bounding counter in this edge-case code path, causing an unbounded CPU-locking loop until packet construction completes. This is a complement fix to CVE-2024-8508, which introduced a compression limit in 1.21.1 that did not cover this specific bypass scenario; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

DNS cache poisoning in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows an adjacent-network attacker to inject malicious resource records into the resolver's cache by exploiting insufficient validation of authority-section RRSets. By attaching forged non-NS RRSets (such as MX records) with accompanying address records in spoofed or fragmented DNS replies, an attacker can trick Unbound into caching poisoned entries when the authority RRSet carries sufficient trust as in-zone delegation data. Publicly available proof-of-concept exploit code exists (CVSS 4.0 E:P); this is a complement fix to CVE-2025-11411, meaning systems that patched the prior vulnerability but have not upgraded to 1.25.1 remain exposed.

Code Injection Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unbound DNS resolver up to and including version 1.25.0 exposes a denial-of-service condition in its DNSSEC validation stack, specifically in the negative cache code path used to look up DS records. An adversary who controls a DNSSEC-signed zone can craft NSEC3 records with high-but-permissible iteration counts for child delegations, causing any vulnerable Unbound instance that queries those records to perform unbounded SHA-1 hash computations while holding a global negative cache lock - blocking all other threads that need cache access. No public exploit code exists and this is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog at time of analysis, but coordinated query floods against the vulnerable code path could escalate a single-instance slowdown into a full denial of service.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Resolution performance degradation in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 and earlier allows an unauthenticated remote attacker - who also controls a malicious or slow authoritative nameserver - to subvert the jostle logic designed to evict stalled queries, ultimately causing denial of resolution service. The jostle mechanism, which activates when the num-queries-per-thread limit is reached, is bypassed because retransmitted duplicate queries reset the aging timestamp to the latest duplicate rather than preserving the original query start time, preventing aged queries from being correctly identified and replaced. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis; however, the vendor has confirmed the issue and released a patch in version 1.25.1.

Information Disclosure Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unbound DNS resolver versions up to and including 1.25.0 allow remote unauthenticated attackers to degrade or deny service by sending DNS queries carrying abnormally large numbers of EDNS options, causing resolver threads to become occupied with unbounded parsing and internal data structure allocation. Coordinated multi-source attacks amplify thread exhaustion into full denial of service for legitimate DNS clients. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; vendor-released patch is available in Unbound 1.25.1, which enforces a hard cap of 100 incoming EDNS options.

Denial Of Service Unbound Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Ghost domain name extension in NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 through 1.25.0 allows an adversary controlling an expired ghost zone to artificially prolong its resolvability by causing Unbound to overwrite the cached parent-side referral NS rrset with the child-side apex NS rrset, extending the ghost domain window by up to one full cache-max-ttl interval. The attack requires the adversary to control the target ghost zone and issue a single NS query to a vulnerable resolver; in non-default configurations using 'harden-referral-path: yes', no external query is needed as Unbound performs the triggering lookup internally. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing exists; the CVSS 4.0 Exploit Maturity is rated 'Unreported', though the integrity impact on DNS resolution is high (VI:H) and represents a meaningful trust boundary violation.

Information Disclosure Red Hat Unbound +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Heap out-of-bounds read in Unbound's DNSCrypt packet handling allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to potentially crash the resolver with a single malformed query, causing denial of service. Affected are all Unbound installations from version 1.6.2 through 1.25.0 that were compiled with the optional '--enable-dnscrypt' flag. The crash is probabilistic rather than guaranteed - whether the out-of-bounds read escalates to a heap overflow depends entirely on the memory allocator behavior and heap layout at runtime; absent a crash, Unbound's own packet validation will discard the offending query. No public exploit exists and no active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Due to a mistake in error checking, Routinator will terminate when an incoming RTR connection is reset by the peer too quickly after opening. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Routinator +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NLnet Labs’ Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.12.1 as well as 0.14.0 up to and including 0.14.2 contains a possible path traversal vulnerability in the optional, off-by-default. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Path Traversal Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs' Routinator up to and including version 0.12.1 may crash when trying to parse certain malformed RPKI objects. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs' bcder library up to and including version 0.7.2 panics while decoding certain invalid input data rather than rejecting the data with an error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Bcder Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs Krill supports direct access to the RRDP repository content through its built-in web server at the "/rrdp" endpoint. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Krill Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability named 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack) has been discovered in various DNS resolving software. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Fedora Unbound +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In NLnet Labs Routinator 0.9.0 up to and including 0.11.2, due to a mistake in error handling, data in RRDP snapshot and delta files that isn’t correctly base 64 encoded is treated as a fatal error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Unbound +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Fedora Unbound +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

In NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2, a validation run can be delayed significantly by an RRDP repository by not answering but slowly drip-feeding bytes to keep the connection alive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Debian Debian Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2 happily processes a chain of RRDP repositories of infinite length causing it to never finish a validation run. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.0 produces invalid RTR payload if an RPKI CA uses too large values in the max-length parameter in a ROA. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.12.0, and NLnet Labs NSD, up to and including version 4.3.3, contain a local vulnerability that would allow for a local symlink attack. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Red Hat Unbound +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.4
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in NLnet Labs Routinator 0.1.0 through 0.7.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Routinator Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.10.1 has an infinite loop via malformed DNS answers received from upstream servers. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical +8
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical +8
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.3
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Unbound 1.6.4 through 1.9.4 contain a vulnerability in the ipsec module that can cause shell code execution after receiving a specially crafted answer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

RCE Command Injection Fedora +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Ubuntu Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

nsd-checkzone in NLnet Labs NSD 4.2.0 has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow in the dname_concatenate() function in dname.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Name Server Daemon +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

A double-free vulnerability in str2host.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A double-free vulnerability in parse.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Information Disclosure Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NSD before 4.1.11 allows remote DNS master servers to cause a denial of service (/tmp disk consumption and slave server crash) via a zone transfer with unlimited data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Nsd Nlnetlabs
NVD GitHub
EPSS 8% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

iterator.c in NLnet Labs Unbound before 1.5.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large or infinite. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW Monitor

The ldns-keygen tool in ldns 1.6.x uses the current umask to set the privileges of the private key, which might allow local users to obtain the private key by reading the file. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Ldns Nlnetlabs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM This Month

query.c in NSD 3.0.x through 3.0.8, 3.1.x through 3.1.1, and 3.2.x before 3.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and child process crash) via a crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Nsd +1
NVD

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