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Unbound DNS Resolver < 1.10.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

🗓️ 20 May 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType 
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Unbound DNS Resolver < 1.10.1 Multiple Vulnerabilitie

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:nlnetlabs:unbound";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.143940");
  script_version("2025-10-31T05:40:56+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-10-31 05:40:56 +0000 (Fri, 31 Oct 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-05-20 02:43:01 +0000 (Wed, 20 May 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-02-17 21:00:00 +0000 (Wed, 17 Feb 2021)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-12662", "CVE-2020-12663");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("Unbound DNS Resolver < 1.10.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_unbound_dns_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("unbound/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Unbound DNS Resolver is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The following vulnerabilities exist:

  - CVE-2020-12662: Unbound can be tricked into amplifying an incoming query into a large number of
  queries directed to a target

  - CVE-2020-12663: Malformed answers from upstream name servers can be used to make Unbound
  unresponsive");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Unbound DNS Resolver version 1.10.0 and prior.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.10.1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2020-12662_2020-12663.txt");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_proto(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "1.10.1")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "1.10.1");
  security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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