CVE-2026-50106 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: NLnet Labs
Reserved: 22.06.2026 Published: 21.10.2026 Updated: 21.10.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor NLnet Labs
Product Unbound
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.26.2 (excl.)

Solutions

This issue is fixed starting with version 1.26.2

Credits

  • Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-807: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision CWE