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CVE-2026-44690VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: unbound security update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-44690· High 7.5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High : upgrade Red Hat unbound to 1.25.2 soon.

Data as of 2 Nov 2026, 13:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.25.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 22 Jul 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Unbound to 1.25.2.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
NLnet LabsUnboundAffected
  • >=1.7.0 <1.25.2
Fixed in
  • 1.25.2

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated unbound packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and related variants that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate these issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the official update.

Description

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for the unbound DNS resolver addressing two vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-44690, a cache poisoning issue due to insufficient RRSIG.Labels validation and premature cache writes, and CVE-2026-55973, a denial of service via a malformed EDNS Report-Channel option. These vulnerabilities affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and related variants. An update is available to fix these issues.

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