CVE-2026-41292
HIGHUnbound <= 1.25.0 - Denial of Service via EDNS Option Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24013
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41292
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480125
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-41292.txt
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36320
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36777
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37282
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0063
EPSS Percentile
46.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1050
CWE-407
CWE-770
Status
published
Products (2)
NLnet Labs/Unbound
< 1.25.1
nlnetlabs/unbound
< 1.25.1
Published
May 20, 2026
Tracked Since
May 20, 2026