CVE-2025-5994: CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data in NLnet Labs Unbound
A multi-vendor cache poisoning vulnerability named 'Rebirthday Attack' has been discovered in caching resolvers that support EDNS Client Subnet (ECS). Unbound is also vulnerable when compiled with ECS support, i.e., '--enable-subnet', AND configured to send ECS information along with queries to upstream name servers, i.e., at least one of the 'send-client-subnet', 'client-subnet-zone' or 'client-subnet-always-forward' options is used. Resolvers supporting ECS need to segregate outgoing queries to accommodate for different outgoing ECS information. This re-opens up resolvers to a birthday paradox attack (Rebirthday Attack) that tries to match the DNS transaction ID in order to cache non-ECS poisonous replies.
CVE-2025-5994: CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data in NLnet Labs Unbound
Description
A multi-vendor cache poisoning vulnerability named 'Rebirthday Attack' has been discovered in caching resolvers that support EDNS Client Subnet (ECS). Unbound is also vulnerable when compiled with ECS support, i.e., '--enable-subnet', AND configured to send ECS information along with queries to upstream name servers, i.e., at least one of the 'send-client-subnet', 'client-subnet-zone' or 'client-subnet-always-forward' options is used. Resolvers supporting ECS need to segregate outgoing queries to accommodate for different outgoing ECS information. This re-opens up resolvers to a birthday paradox attack (Rebirthday Attack) that tries to match the DNS transaction ID in order to cache non-ECS poisonous replies.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- NLnet Labs
- Date Reserved
- 2025-06-11T09:08:05.767Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6877bb51a83201eaacdbe12a
Added to database: 7/16/2025, 2:46:41 PM
Last updated: 7/16/2025, 2:46:41 PM
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