CVE-2026-35501

unbound: When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an a...

CVE-2026-35501 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35501, released October 24, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
3.7
low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0011
1st percentile

When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 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 with a forged NSEC reply with the SOA bit cleared can trick Unbound to treat the configured trust island as insecure. This happens because the DNSSEC validator in Unbound accepts and caches the NSEC insecure response bypassing the RRSIG validation that the validator was supposed to do. The acceptance of the NSEC record at the trust anchor apex was allowed due to and old fix for type DS and NSEC queries from clients when trust anchor for that name existed.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
python3-unbound · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
python3-unbound-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 1.26.2-0+deb13u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35501 Oct 24, 2026
unbound · Debian 14 1.26.2-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35501 Oct 24, 2026
unbound · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-anchor · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-anchor-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-debugsource · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-devel · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-libs · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-libs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-utils · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026
unbound-utils-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1.17.1-1.amzn2023.0.17 ALAS2023-2026-3313 Nov 7, 2026

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