CVE-2026-35501
CVE-2026-35501 · Bypass of a configured island trust anchor underneath an insecure parent from an atacker-controlled NSEC record.
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When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor with a forged NSEC reply with the SOA bit cleared can trick Unbound to treat the configured trust island as insecure. This happens because the DNSSEC validator in Unbound accepts and caches the NSEC insecure response bypassing the RRSIG validation that the validator was supposed to do. The acceptance of the NSEC record at the trust anchor apex was allowed due to and old fix for type DS and NSEC queries from clients when trust anchor for that name existed.
CVSS 3.7 · Low · EPSS 0.1% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
unbound
- Versions
- ≥ 1.0.1, < 1.26.2: Affected (semver)
Update to 1.26.2
unbound Debian:12
- Versions
- 1.17.1-2
- 1.17.1-2+deb12u1
- 1.17.1-2+deb12u2
- 1.17.1-2+deb12u3
- 1.17.1-2+deb12u4
- 1.17.1-2+loong64
- 1.18.0-1
- 1.18.0-2
- 1.19.1-1
- 1.19.2-1
- 1.20.0-1
- 1.21.1-1
- 1.22.0-1
- 1.22.0-2
- 1.23.1-1
- 1.24.0-1
- 1.24.0-2
- 1.24.1-1
- 1.24.1-2
- 1.24.2-1
- 1.25.0-1
- 1.25.1-1
- 1.25.2-1
- 1.26.0-1
- 1.26.0-2
- 1.26.1-1
- 1.26.2-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Debian:13
- Versions
- 1.22.0-2
- 1.22.0-2+deb13u1
- 1.22.0-2+deb13u2
- 1.22.0-2+deb13u3
- 1.23.1-1
- 1.24.0-1
- 1.24.0-2
- 1.24.1-1
- 1.24.1-2
- 1.24.2-1
- 1.25.0-1
- 1.25.1-1
- 1.25.2-1
- 1.26.0-1
- 1.26.0-2
- 1.26.1-0+deb13u1
- 1.26.1-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.26.2-0+deb13u1
Update to 1.26.2-0+deb13u1
unbound Debian:14
- Versions
- 1.22.0-2
- 1.23.1-1
- 1.24.0-1
- 1.24.0-2
- 1.24.1-1
- 1.24.1-2
- 1.24.2-1
- 1.25.0-1
- 1.25.1-1
- 1.25.2-1
- 1.26.0-1
- 1.26.0-2
- 1.26.1-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.26.2-1
Update to 1.26.2-1
unbound Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.4.20-1
- 1.4.21-1
- 1.4.21-1ubuntu1
- 1.4.21-1ubuntu2
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu1
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu2
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu3
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.1
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.2
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm1
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm2
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm4
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm5
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.4.22-1ubuntu6
- 1.5.7-1ubuntu1
- 1.5.7-1ubuntu2
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm2
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm4
- 1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm5
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.6.5-1
- 1.6.7-1
- 1.6.7-1build1
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu1
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.1
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.2
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.3
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.4
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.5
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm2
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm3
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm5
- 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm6
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.9.0-2ubuntu1
- 1.9.0-2ubuntu2
- 1.9.4-2
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.1
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.2
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.3
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.4
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.5
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.6
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.8
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.9
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm2
- 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm3
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu1
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu3
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.1
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.2
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.3
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.4
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.5
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.7
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.8
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.10
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.11
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.12
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.13
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.14
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.16
- 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.17
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.17.1-2
- 1.18.0-2ubuntu1
- 1.18.0-2ubuntu2
- 1.19.1-1ubuntu1
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu1
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.1
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.2
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.3
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.4
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.5
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.6
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.7
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.8
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.10
- 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:26.10
- Versions
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2
- 1.25.1-1ubuntu1
- 1.25.1-1ubuntu3
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
unbound Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.22.0-2ubuntu2
- 1.22.0-2ubuntu4
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu1
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.1
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.3
- 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published