CVE-2026-54478

A flaw was found in Unbound. When Unbound is configured to listen on a proxy-protocol port with DNS cookies enabled, it incorrectly computes the server cookie using the proxy's network address instead of the actual client's address. This vulnerability allows an off-path attacker to harvest a vali...

CVE-2026-54478

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a 'proxy-protocol-port' interface with 'answer-cookie: yes', the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxy's wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a...

CVE-2026-54478

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a 'proxy-protocol-port' interface with 'answer-cookie: yes', the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxy's wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a...

CVE-2026-54478

CVE-2026-54478 affects NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0–1.25.1 when listening on a proxy-protocol-port with answer-cookie enabled. The RFC 9018 server-cookie (SipHash) is computed over the proxy’s wire address rather than the PROXYv2-declared client, causing a server cookie to validate for every PROXYv2...