CVE-2026-41292
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.7%
52.5th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-1050
Published 2026-05-20 · modified 2026-08-26
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
| Attack Vector | N | Network |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | N | None |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | U | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | N | None |
| Integrity | N | None |
| Availability | H | High |
Timeline
- 2026-05-20 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-08-26 — Last modified (NVD)
Description
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).
Affected
References
- https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-41292.txt
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24013
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36320
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36777
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37282
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54769
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-41292
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480125
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-41292.json