Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting unbound package, versions [1.22.0,1.25.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-UNBOUND-18488396
  • published31 Jul 2026
  • disclosed22 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-32665  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade unbound to version 1.25.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via improper validation of client-provided data length in the process handling DNS-over-QUIC connections. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and exhaust configured memory limits by sending specially crafted data, resulting in service unavailability for new clients. This is only exploitable if DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) is enabled in the configuration.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) in the configuration and restarting the service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1