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CVE-2025-5994: CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data in NLnet Labs Unbound

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VulnerabilityCVE-2025-5994cvecve-2025-5994cwe-349
Published: Wed Jul 16 2025 (07/16/2025, 14:38:22 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: NLnet Labs
Product: 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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