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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-50106

Possible insecure NXDOMAIN for non-existing records under a configured island trust anchor underneath an insecure parent.

Description

When NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor who can deliver one forged NXDOMAIN response for a name inside the island, with the NSEC/SOA RRSIG 'SignerName' set to the insecure parent, tricks Unbound's validator to use the root trust anchor instead, and consecutively the insecure parent, thus causing that record to be treated as insecure and denying existence for records in the trust island.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

NLnet Labs Unbound

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 1.26.2affected

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