Important: unbound

Issue Overview: In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 up to and including 1.25.1, a similar vulnerability as with CVE-2026-40622 in the 'ghost domain names' family of attacks was found in Unbound that could extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value for A/AAAA glue records...

CVE-2026-50251

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.1, when 'unwanted-reply-threshold' is enabled set to any value greater than zero, glue records of 0.0.0.0/::0 can short-circuit Unbound, on systems that can direct such traffic, by issuing DNS queries and receiving seemingly unwanted replies...

CVE-2026-50251 Attacker supplied '0.0.0.0'/'::' glue triggers defensive full-cache flush

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.1, when 'unwanted-reply-threshold' is enabled set to any value greater than zero, glue records of 0.0.0.0/::0 can short-circuit Unbound, on systems that can direct such traffic, by issuing DNS queries and receiving seemingly unwanted replies...