CVE-2026-54478CWE-290

DNS Cookie bypass when combined with proxy-protocol use

Low · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
3.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a 'proxy-protocol-port' interface with 'answer-cookie: yes', the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxy's wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a given proxy node therefore validates for every PROXYv2-declared source behind that node. On a UDP+proxy-protocol front, an off-path attacker can harvest one cookie with a single legitimate query, then replay it under any spoofed source and pass DNS Cookie checks that were deployed to defeat this in the first place.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.7 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Published
2026-07-22T13:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:09Z
    DNS Cookie bypass when combined with proxy-protocol use
    cvelistv5