UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44690: High severity ubuntu/unbound vulnerability

Published Jul 22, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

5 affected componentsFixes available
ubuntu/unbound<1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm3
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm3
ubuntu/unbound<1.13.1-1ubuntu5.17
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.17
ubuntu/unbound<1.19.2-1ubuntu3.12
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.12
ubuntu/unbound<1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
ubuntu/unbound<1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4
1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm3
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.17
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.12
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4

Event History

Jul 22, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·02:17 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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