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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-1682

NIXPKGS-2026-1682
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Permalink CVE-2026-42534
6.9 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Amber (Amber)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
updated 2 days, 12 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion
  • @LeSuisse ignored
    16 packages
    • luaPackages.luaunbound
    • lua51Packages.luaunbound
    • lua52Packages.luaunbound
    • lua53Packages.luaunbound
    • lua54Packages.luaunbound
    • lua55Packages.luaunbound
    • luajitPackages.luaunbound
    • prometheus-unbound-exporter
    • python312Packages.pyunbound
    • python313Packages.pyunbound
    • unbound-with-systemd
    • python314Packages.pyunbound
    • haskellPackages.unbound-generics
    • haskellPackages.unbounded-delays
    • haskellPackages.unbound-kind-generics
    • haskellPackages.unbound-generics-unify
  • @LeSuisse restored package unbound-with-systemd
  • @LeSuisse ignored maintainer @Scrumplex maintainer.ignore
  • @LeSuisse accepted
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub
Jostle logic bypass degrades resolution performance

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 has a vulnerability in the jostle logic that could defeat its purpose and degrade resolution performance. Retransmits of the same query could renew the age of slow running queries and not allow the jostle logic to see them as aged and potential targets for replacement with new queries. An adversary who can query a vulnerable Unbound and who can control a domain name server that replies slowly and/or maliciously to Unbound's queries can exploit the vulnerability and degrade the resolution performance of Unbound. When Unbound's 'num-queries-per-thread' reaches its limit, the jostle logic kicks in. When a new query comes in, half of the available queries that are also slow to resolve are candidates for replacement. The vulnerability then happens because duplicate queries that need resolution would skew the aging result by using the timestamp of the latest duplicate query instead of the original one that started the resolution effort. Cache and local data response performance remains unaffected. Coordinated attacks could raise this to a denial of resolution service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to attach an initial, non-updatable start time for incoming queries that allow the jostle logic to work as intended.

Affected products

Unbound
  • <1.25.1

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