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CVE-2026-14586VulnerabilityPublished 07/22/2026Updated 10/23/2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Authoritative record:CVE-2026-14586· Medium 5.9

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.9 Medium · fixed in 1.25.2 : update Red Hat Product Security Red Hat when convenient.

Data as of 10/25/2026, 09:03:59 UTC

CVSS base score
5.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV, no exploitation reported

EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 16% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.25.2

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red HatAffected
  • Red Hat
  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • aarch64
  • unbound-main@aarch64
  • SUSE
  • libunbound8-1.25.2-160000.1.1.aarch64
  • python3-unbound-1.25.2-160000.1.1.aarch64
  • unbound-1.25.2-160000.1.1.aarch64
  • python3-unbound-0:1.25.2-0.1.hum1@aarch64
  • libunbound8-0:1.25.2-160000.1.1.aarch64
  • unbound-anchor-0:1.25.2-160000.1.1.aarch64
  • ppc64le
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated RPM packages for Unbound and related components as part of the Red Hat Hardened Images update. Users should apply these updates following Red Hat's official guidance at https://images.redhat.com/. Since Red Hat's supported Unbound versions do not include DNSCrypt support, the specific denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2026-40691) does not affect them. No additional mitigations are specified in the advisory. Patch status for all CVEs is not explicitly confirmed; users should monitor Red Hat advisories for updates.

Description

This update for unbound fixes the following issues: Update to version 1.25.2. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-14586: DoS via assertion in `libngtcp2` for DNS-over-QUIC environments with high concurrency (bsc#1271879). - CVE-2026-32665: Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass (bsc#1271873). - CVE-2026-40691: DoS due to heap overflow via single bad DNSCrypt query over TCP (bsc#1271875). - CVE-2026-41637: Degradation of resolution service due to improperly accounted client-terminated DNS-over-QUIC queries (bsc#1271891). - CVE-2026-42955: Ghost domain window can be extended by up to one cached TTL configured value for A/AAAA glue records (bsc#1271892). - CVE-2026-44621: Libunbound applications configured with `unwanted-reply-threshold` could eventually be abruptly terminated (bsc#1271876). - CVE-2026-44687: Off-by-one error in `harden-below-nxdomain` logic can shadow a stub/forward zone by a legitimate parent's `NXDOMAIN` (bsc#1271893). - CVE-2026-44690: Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via `RRSIG.labels` manipulation (bsc#1271877). - CVE-2026-46582: Replay of a wildcard `rrset` as another piece of data triggers poisoning in the server expired reply path (bsc#1271894). - CVE-2026-50045: `max-global-quota` bypass via single client queries for a deeply nested name under a DNSSEC-signed parent (bsc#1271878). - CVE-2026-50046: Possible heap use-after-free in an error path when a DoT forwarded query is jostled out (bsc#1271882). - CVE-2026-50243: `response-ip`/`rpz` can rewrite BOGUS answers instead of returning SERVFAIL (bsc#1271880). - CVE-2026-50248: BOGUS configured primary hostname accepted for XFR in auth/rpz zones (bsc#1271881). - CVE-2026-50251: Attacker supplied `0.0.0.0`/`::` glue triggers defensive full-cache flush (bsc#1271883). - CVE-2026-50252: Possible cache poisoning attack by mapping source port population per thread (bsc#1271884). - CVE-2026-54478: DNS Cookie bypass when proxy-protocol with with `answer-cookie:yes` is used (bsc#1271895). - CVE-2026-55708: Privacy/configuration issue when adding local data in views through `unbound-control` (bsc#1271896). - CVE-2026-55717: `serve-expired-client-timeout` and `response-ip` CNAME redirect could lead to a crash (bsc#1271886). - CVE-2026-55973: DoS due to stack overflow triggered crash when `dns-error-reporting: yes` is set (bsc#1271874). - CVE-2026-55990: Crash via crafted client UDP query due to DNSCrypt faulty configuration (bsc#1271887). - CVE-2026-55991: Remote DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) flow-control reacheable assertion failure in `libngtcp2` (bsc#1271888). - CVE-2026-56416: Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain name (bsc#1271889). - CVE-2026-56444: Degradation of resolution service when `discard-timeout` and `serve-expired-client-timeout` are combined in unusual configuration (bsc#1271890). Other updates and bugfixes: - Version 1.25.2: + Features: * TTL behavior changes: cached records reaching TTL 0 are expired; TTL 0 upstream answers are no longer cached by cachedb; serve-expired-reply-ttl is now capped by the original TTL value; TTL decoding updated to adhere to RFC 8767 section 4 * Add new statistics: num.queries.replyaddr_limit and requestlist.current.replies * Add 'log-thread-id' configuration option to log the system-wide Linux thread ID for easier debugging * Add ECC-GOST12 support per RFC 9558 (available as contrib/gost12.patch) * Allow synthesized DNAME TTL=0 to be served from cache within a 1-second grace period, reducing recursion for TTL=0 DNAMEs (RFC 2308) * Fix DoT/DoH/DoQ to reload certificates on config reload without requiring a full restart; fast_reload now supports changes to tls-service-key, tls-service-pem and tls-cert-bundle * Allow ip@port notation in control-interface configuration * Add iter-scrub-rrsig option (default: 8) to limit the number of RRSIGs processed by the scrubber * Add 'tls-protocols' configuration option to select which TLS protocol versions are used; TLSv1.2 is re-enabled by default * Add pthread_setname_np support for named threads + Bug Fixes: * Fix handle leak in pythonmod on pythonmod_init * Fix crash when mesh_detect_cycle_found() is called with no mesh state * Fix modstack_call_init to use the original string when it has changed * Fix fr_atomic_copy_cfg * Fix auth-zone empty label for $ORIGIN when downloading via HTTP * Fix respip and dns64 to be usable simultaneously; RPZ now works with DNS64 * Fix HTTPS and QUIC not being enabled when port is listed in interface-automatic-ports * Allow wait-limit-cookie: 0 to disable cookie-validated wait limits * Fix FIPS mode in OpenSSL causing unit test failure * Fix discard-timeout to only drop UDP, not stream connections * Reply with SERVFAIL when the wait-limit is exceeded * A

Impact

The primary impact is denial of service caused by a remote attacker sending crafted DNSCrypt queries to Unbound servers built with DNSCrypt support, leading to a server crash and disruption of DNS services. This could prevent legitimate users from resolving DNS queries. However, Red Hat's supported Unbound versions are not compiled with DNSCrypt support, so they are not affected by this specific vulnerability. Other listed CVEs may have varying impacts, but details are not provided in this advisory. No known active exploitation has been reported.

Summary

This Red Hat security advisory (RHSA-2026:43588) covers a bug fix and enhancement update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs, including multiple Unbound packages (version 1.25.2-0.1.hum1). Among the addressed issues is CVE-2026-40691, a denial of service vulnerability in Unbound when configured with DNSCrypt support. A remote attacker can send a crafted DNSCrypt query over TCP to trigger a heap overflow, causing a server crash and disrupting DNS resolution. Red Hat states that their supported Unbound builds do not include DNSCrypt support, so this vulnerability does not impact those versions. The advisory lists numerous other CVEs addressed by this update but does not explicitly confirm patch availability for all. The update RPMs are available for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. Red Hat recommends applying the update as detailed on their images portal. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.

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