CVE-2026-52863CWE-416

Memory corruption could lead to crash and denial of service

Medium · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00365 · 29.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-07-22T13:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:09Z
    Memory corruption could lead to crash and denial of service
    cvelistv5