A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path

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unbound: Unbound: Information disclosure via DNSSEC wildcard replay

A flaw was found in Unbound, a Domain Name System DNS resolver. A remote attacker can exploit a vulnerability in how Unbound handles expired DNSSEC DNS Security Extensions records. By injecting a replayed wildcard record set, an attacker can cause Unbound to temporarily consider it secure, leadin...

CVE-2026-46582 A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a replay of a wildcard rrset as another piece of data, could be briefly considered DNSSEC secure based only on the RRSIG validation and stored into cache, before later validation treats it as bogus based on NSEC validation. When the resolvin...

CVE-2026-46582

Affected software/versions: NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.0 up to and including 1.25.1. Issue: a replay of a wildcard RRset as another piece of data can be momentarily treated as DNSSEC secure based on RRSIG validation and cached, then misvalidated on the serve-expired path due to later NSEC validation,...

CVE-2026-46582 A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a replay of a wildcard rrset as another piece of data, could be briefly considered DNSSEC secure based only on the RRSIG validation and stored into cache, before later validation treats it as bogus based on NSEC validation. When the resolvin...