CVE-2026-32665CWE-1284

Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass

High · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when downstream DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) is enabled, the first two bidirectional streams on a new QUIC connection (stream_id 0 and 4) bypass the per-stream 'quic-size' gate entirely, and large input buffers are allocated later, after only the 2-byte length prefix has been received from the initial streams. As a result, a remote client can make Unbound exceed the configured 'quic-size' limit with low-cost input. Using only one connection and two streams, each sending a declared 65535-byte length prefix and then holding the streams open, a client can already trivially make Unbound roughly allocate double that amount. This is a remote availability issue / memory-accounting bypass in the downstream DoQ implementation that leads to denial of service for new DoQ clients. 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
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00471 · 39.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Published
2026-07-22T13:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:04Z
    Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass
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