CVE-2026-44690General(nlnetlabs / unbound)

LOWCVSS 7.5 · HIGH

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Patch nlnetlabs unbound systems immediately

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, insufficient validation of the RRSIG.Labels field combined with premature cache writes during RFC 8198 aggressive NSEC processing leads to cache poisoning that permits a malicious actor controlling a single delegated zone to poison arbitrary sibling zones under NSEC-signed parent domains. A malicious actor with one registered domain under an NSEC-signed TLD can serve malicious insecure DNS responses for unrelated sibling domains (sharing the same parent zone). Arbitrary delegations that do not exist under the parent domain and are covered by the parent's NSEC chain can be brought into insecure existence by fraudulent wildcard DS records (less labels than expected, unknown algorithm) from the malicious sibling domain. This allows the malicious actor to inject insecure wildcard records for those delegations.

0.5/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-345

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

STABLE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • unbound

Threat summary

  • Patch or workaround signal is available
  • 2 mentions across 2 observed days
  • Momentum state: stable

What's happening

  • Patch or workaround mentioned in 1 signal
  • Technical details provided in 1 signal
  • General: 1 classified signal
  • Peaked 1d ago at 1 mentions (2026-07-22); latest day: 1
  • 2 total mentions across 2 days

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
unbound

Deep dive

Activity timeline2 mentions / 2d
00111Mentions · 2026-07-22: 1Mentions · 2026-07-28: 1Patch / Workaround · 2026-07-28: 1Technical Details · 2026-07-28: 107-2207-28
Signal classification2 categories
General
150.0%
Patch
150.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
By indicator
Classification over time
DateTotalLabels
2026-07-221
General1
2026-07-281
Patch1
Full discourse2 posts
  • Yasuhiro Morishita@OrangeMorishita
    General

    CVE-2026-14586 Medium DoS CVE-2026-32665 High DoS CVE-2026-40691 High DoS CVE-2026-41637 Low DoS CVE-2026-42955 Low CVE-2026-40622(幽霊ドメイン名)の追加修正 CVE-2026-44621 Medium DoS CVE-2026-44687 Low DoS(存在するドメイン名を存在しないと誤認させる) CVE-2026-44690 High キャッシュポイズニング CVE-2026-46582 Low キャッシュポイズニング CVE-2026-50045 Medium 外部へのDoS CVE-2026-50046 Medium DoS CVE-2026-50243 Medium DNSSEC検証のバイパス CVE-2026-50248 Medium DNSSEC Bogusでもゾーン転送の接続先にしてしまう CVE-2026-50251 Medium 外部からの意図的なキャッシュクリアによるDoS CVE-2026-50252 Medium UDPソースポートを外部から推測可能(キャッシュポイズニング) CVE-2026-52863 Medium DoS CVE-2026-54478 Low DNSクッキーの無力化 CVE-2026-55708 Low ローカルな名前を外部に問い合わせてしまう(情報流出) CVE-2026-55717 Medium DoS CVE-2026-55973 High DoS CVE-2026-55990 Medium DoS CVE-2026-55991 Medium DoS CVE-2026-56416 Medium DoS CVE-2026-56444 Medium DoS

    Post summary

    A concise list of CVE identifiers with severity and minimal description, lacking any additional context such as PoC, exploitation details, patches, or active usage reports.

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  • Open Source Security mailing list@oss_security
    Patch

    Unbound 1.25.2 fixes many CVEs https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/22/7 4 "severity: HIGH" CVE-2026-32665: Remote DNS-over-QUIC DoS CVE-2026-40691: Packet of death for DNSCrypt over TCP CVE-2026-44690: Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning CVE-2026-55973: Stack buffer overflow + many MEDIUM and LOW

    Post summary

    The tweet announces the Unbound 1.25.2 patch that addresses several high, medium, and low severity CVEs, listing the affected CVEs and brief descriptions of each vulnerability.

    00030421
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