Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop Affecting unbound package, versions [,1.25.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.72% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UNBOUND-17660949
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed20 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2026

CVE-2026-41292  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1050  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade unbound to version 1.25.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop through the parsing of incoming queries containing an excessive number of EDNS options. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion and disrupt normal service by sending specially crafted queries that force threads to process large lists of options, potentially leading to service degradation or unavailability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1