Unbound Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-1931

NLnet Labs Unbound version 1.18.0 up to and including version 1.19.1 contain a vulnerability that can cause denial of service by a certain code path that can lead to an infinite loop. Unbound 1.18.0 introduced a feature that removes EDE records from responses with size higher than the client's...

CVE-2022-3204

A vulnerability named 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack) has been discovered in various DNS resolving software. The NRDelegation Attack works by having a malicious delegation with a considerable number of non responsive nameservers. The attack starts by querying a resolver...

CVE-2022-30699

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire. The rogue...

CVE-2022-30698

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the.....

CVE-2019-25031

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows configuration injection in create_unbound_ad_servers.sh upon a successful man-in-the-middle attack against a cleartext HTTP session. NOTE: The vendor does not consider this a vulnerability of the Unbound software. create_unbound_ad_servers.sh is a contributed script...

CVE-2019-25038

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in a size calculation in dnscrypt/dnscrypt.c. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25040

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an infinite loop via a compressed name in dname_pkt_copy. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25032

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in the regional allocator via regional_alloc. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25033

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in the regional allocator via the ALIGN_UP macro. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25036

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an assertion failure and denial of service in synth_cname. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25039

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in a size calculation in respip/respip.c. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25042

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an out-of-bounds write via a compressed name in rdata_copy. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25041

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an assertion failure via a compressed name in dname_pkt_copy. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25037

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an assertion failure and denial of service in dname_pkt_copy via an invalid packet. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25034

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an integer overflow in sldns_str2wire_dname_buf_origin, leading to an out-of-bounds write. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2019-25035

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows an out-of-bounds write in sldns_bget_token_par. NOTE: The vendor disputes that this is a vulnerability. Although the code may be vulnerable, a running Unbound installation cannot be remotely or locally...

CVE-2020-28935

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.12.0, and NLnet Labs NSD, up to and including version 4.3.3, contain a local vulnerability that would allow for a local symlink attack. When writing the PID file, Unbound and NSD create the file if it is not there, or open an existing file for...

CVE-2020-10772

An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Vulnerable versions of Unbound could still amplify an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target, even with a lower amplification ratio compared to....

CVE-2020-12663

Unbound before 1.10.1 has an infinite loop via malformed DNS answers received from upstream...

CVE-2020-12662

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS...

CVE-2019-18934

Unbound 1.6.4 through 1.9.4 contain a vulnerability in the ipsec module that can cause shell code execution after receiving a specially crafted answer. This issue can only be triggered if unbound was compiled with --enable-ipsecmod support, and ipsecmod is enabled and used in the...

CVE-2019-16866

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. The source IP address of the query must match an access-control...

CVE-2017-15105

A flaw was found in the way unbound before 1.6.8 validated wildcard-synthesized NSEC records. An improperly validated wildcard NSEC record could be used to prove the non-existence (NXDOMAIN answer) of an existing wildcard record, or trick unbound into accepting a NODATA...

CVE-2014-8602

iterator.c in NLnet Labs Unbound before 1.5.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large or infinite number of...

CVE-2012-1192

The resolver in Unbound before 1.4.11 overwrites cached server names and TTL values in NS records during the processing of a response to an A record query, which allows remote attackers to trigger continued resolvability of revoked domain names via a "ghost domain names"...

CVE-2011-4528

Unbound before 1.4.13p2 attempts to free unallocated memory during processing of duplicate CNAME records in a signed zone, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted...

CVE-2011-4869

validator/val_nsec3.c in Unbound before 1.4.13p2 does not properly perform proof processing for NSEC3-signed zones, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed response that lacks expected NSEC3 records, a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-4008

Unbound before 1.4.4 does not send responses for signed zones after mishandling an unspecified query, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DNSSEC outage) via a crafted...

CVE-2011-1922

daemon/worker.c in Unbound 1.x before 1.4.10, when debugging functionality and the interface-automatic option are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted DNS request that triggers improper error...

CVE-2010-0969

Unbound before 1.4.3 does not properly align structures on 64-bit platforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via unspecified...

CVE-2009-3602

Unbound before 1.3.4 does not properly verify signatures for NSEC3 records, which allows remote attackers to cause secure delegations to be downgraded via DNS spoofing or other DNS-related attacks in conjunction with crafted delegation...