CVE-2026-41292CWE-1050CWE-407CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-41292

High · published May 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).

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
0.00827 · 57.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-1050 · Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop; CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-20T14:16Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
nlnetlabs/unbound< 1.25.11.25.1
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 09:19Z
    Long list of incoming EDNS options degrades performance
    cvelistv5