CVE-2026-44690CWE-345

Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via RRSIG.labels manipulation

High · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, insufficient validation of the RRSIG.Labels field combined with premature cache writes during RFC 8198 aggressive NSEC processing leads to cache poisoning that permits a malicious actor controlling a single delegated zone to poison arbitrary sibling zones under NSEC-signed parent domains. A malicious actor with one registered domain under an NSEC-signed TLD can serve malicious insecure DNS responses for unrelated sibling domains (sharing the same parent zone). Arbitrary delegations that do not exist under the parent domain and are covered by the parent's NSEC chain can be brought into insecure existence by fraudulent wildcard DS records (less labels than expected, unknown algorithm) from the malicious sibling domain. This allows the malicious actor to inject insecure wildcard records for those delegations.

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:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00153 · 4.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-345 · Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Published
2026-07-22T13:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:06Z
    Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via RRSIG.labels manipulation
    cvelistv5