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CVE-2026-52863

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS 3.1
Description
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-52863
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
NLnet Labs
Reserved
2026-06-22 12:27 UTC
Published
2026-07-22 13:09 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-22 14:17 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-416
CWE-416: Use After Free
Vendor / Product
NLnet Labs / Unbound
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

5.9 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
partial
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 < 1.25.2
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-416 cna CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
5.9 MEDIUM 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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