CVE-2026-44608CWE-413

Use after free and crash under special conditions in RPZ code

Medium · published May 20, 2026

CVSS v4.0
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.14.0 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a locking inconsistency vulnerability that when certain conditions are met (multi-threaded, RPZ XFR reload, RPZ zone with 'rpz-nsip'/'rpz-nsdname' triggers) it could result in heap use-after-free and eventual crash. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability if conditions are first met on a vulnerable Unbound, i.e., multi-threaded, an RPZ zone with 'rpz-nsip'/'rpz-nsdname' triggers and an ongoing XFR for that RPZ zone. Local RPZ files do not trigger the vulnerability. If the timing is right and an XFR happens at the same time another thread needs to read that RPZ zone, the reader may not hold the lock long enough and the thread applying the XFR may free objects that the reader is about to walk causing the use-after-free. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to the locking code.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
4.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
EPSS
0.00255 · 17.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-413 · Improper Resource Locking
Published
2026-05-20T09:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 09:21Z
    Use after free and crash under special conditions in RPZ code
    cvelistv5