High severity · published May 20, 2026
CVE-2026-41292
Long list of incoming EDNS options degrades performance
7.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 55% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UN
Unbound · NLnet Labs
before 1.25.1 · source: vendor, NVD
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Hardened Images · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41292
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41292
Mitigation
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-41292.txt
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24013
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36320
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36777
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37282
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54769
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