CVE-2026-52863

MEDIUM

NLnet Labs Unbound < 1.25.2 - respip/dns64 Use-After-Free Denial of Service

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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-416
Status published
Products (2)
NLnet Labs/Unbound 1.25.0 - 1.25.2
nlnetlabs/unbound 1.25.0 - 1.25.2
Published Jul 22, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 22, 2026