CVE-2026-32792CWE-125CWE-166

Packet of death with DNSCrypt

Medium · published May 20, 2026

CVSS v4.0
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a denial of service vulnerability when compiled with DNSCrypt support ('--enable-dnscrypt'). A bad DNSCrypt query could underflow Unbound's DNSCrypt packet reading procedure that may lead to heap overflow. A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability with a single bad DNSCrypt query that its decrypted plaintext consists entirely of '0x00' bytes and does not contain the expected '0x80' marker. Unbound would then start reading more bytes than necessary until it finds a non-'0x00' byte. Based on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout, it could lead to heap overflow while reading followed by a crash. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. If the heap overflow does not happen, Unbound's later packet checks will deny the packet. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to bound reading in the given buffer space.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
EPSS
0.00337 · 26.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read; CWE-166 · Improper Handling of Missing Special Element
Published
2026-05-20T09:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 09:17Z
    Packet of death with DNSCrypt
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