CVE-2026-44690

Published: Lug 22, 2026 Last Modified: Lug 24, 2026
ExploitDB:
Other exploit source:
Google Dorks:
HIGH 7,5
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: high
Availability: none

Description

AI Translation Available

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, insufficient validation of the RRSIG.Labels field combined with premature cache writes during RFC 8198 aggressive NSEC processing leads to cache poisoning that permits a malicious actor controlling a single delegated zone to poison arbitrary sibling zones under NSEC-signed parent domains. A malicious actor with one registered domain under an NSEC-signed TLD can serve malicious insecure DNS responses for unrelated sibling domains (sharing the same parent zone). Arbitrary delegations that do not exist under the parent domain and are covered by the parent's NSEC chain can be brought into insecure existence by fraudulent wildcard DS records (less labels than expected, unknown algorithm) from the malicious sibling domain. This allows the malicious actor to inject insecure wildcard records for those delegations.

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Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Draft
Abstraction: Class Structure: Simple
Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Integrity Other
Potential Impacts:
Varies By Context Unexpected State
Applicable Platforms
Technologies: ICS/OT
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Application

Unbound by Nlnetlabs

Product Information
Vendor Nlnetlabs
Product Unbound
Version Range Affected
From 1.7.0 (inclusive)
To 1.25.2 (exclusive)
cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:unbound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Common Platform Enumeration - Standardized vulnerability identification
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-44690.t…
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-44690.txt