CVE-2026-14586CWE-617

Assertion in libngtcp2 when under pressure in high concurrency DNS-over-QUIC environments

Medium · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, in DNS-over-QUIC environments, with high concurrency and under pressure, an assertion in libngtcp2 about monotonic timestamps could trigger and result in server termination and thus denial of service. When interfacing with libngtcp2, for DNS-over-QUIC support in Unbound, it is expected to use monotonic time. Unbound was using realtime instead, and in DoQ environments with high concurrency and under pressure, an assert in libngtcp2 for the quic timestamp would trigger and terminate the server.This vulnerability needs Unbound to be compiled with DoQ support ('--with-libngtcp2') and the 'quic-port' to be configured for the listening interfaces.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00258 · 16.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion
Published
2026-07-22T13:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:03Z
    Assertion in libngtcp2 when under pressure in high concurrency DNS-over-QUIC environments
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