{
  "cveId": "CVE-2026-56444",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56444",
  "summary": "CVE-2026-56444 is fixed in unbound on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56444, released July 28, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "Degradation of resolution service when \u0027discard-timeout\u0027 and \u0027serve-expired-client-timeout\u0027 are combined in unusual configuration",
  "description": "In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.20.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with \u0027serve-expired: yes\u0027 and \u0027serve-expired-client-timeout \u003E discard-timeout \u003E 0\u0027 (contrary to the suggested values), the discard-timeout branch during the serve expired logic drops an aged client reply without performing the correct accounting for the number of reply addresses for the query. Other identical branches outside of serve expired perform the correct decrement. Since the counter is never decremented in such scenario, it can reach the maximum limit and new clients for duplicate in-flight queries are silently dropped resulting in degradation of resolution service. A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability by querying the resolver for a client-controlled slow-on-demand authoritative zone that can drive the counter past the threshold. Shipped defaults for \u0027serve-expired-client-timeout: 1800\u0027 and \u0027discard-timeout: 1900\u0027 make the branch unreachable.",
  "published": "2026-07-22T14:17:22Z",
  "severity": "Moderate",
  "cvss": 5.9,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
  "cwe": "Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime",
  "epss": 0.00365,
  "epssPercentile": 0.30562,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "vendorAdvisory": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-56444",
  "fixes": [
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "Debian 13.5 (trixie)",
      "fixedVersion": "1.26.1-0\u002Bdeb13u1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56444",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-56444",
      "released": "2026-07-28T14:13:38Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "Debian 14",
      "fixedVersion": "1.25.2-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-56444",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-56444",
      "released": "2026-07-28T14:13:38Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "opensuse-leap 16.0",
      "fixedVersion": "1.25.2-160000.1.1",
      "fix": "OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21550-1",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/opensuse-su-2026-21550-1",
      "released": "2026-08-10T15:27:28Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "sles 15.6",
      "fixedVersion": "1.25.2-150600.23.19.1",
      "fix": "SUSE-SU-2026:3885-1",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-3885-1",
      "released": "2026-08-31T14:34:37Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "sles 15.7",
      "fixedVersion": "1.25.2-150600.23.19.1",
      "fix": "SUSE-SU-2026:3885-1",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-3885-1",
      "released": "2026-08-31T14:34:37Z"
    },
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "unbound",
      "release": "sles 16.0",
      "fixedVersion": "1.25.2-160000.1.1",
      "fix": "SUSE-SU-2026:23226-1",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-23226-1",
      "released": "2026-08-10T15:26:22Z"
    }
  ],
  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-09T07:25:28Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
    "terms": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar/use-the-data"
  }
}