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    CVE-2026-50106

    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.

    Published:Oct 21, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 22, 2026
    EPS:Oct 21, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00194
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nlnetlabs
    Product
    Unbound

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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