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CVE-2026-50252VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: unbound security update

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-50252· Medium 5.7

Public exploit available · CVSS 5.7 Medium : upgrade Red Hat unbound to 1.25.2 as a priority.

Data as of 1 Nov 2026, 14:31 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
5.7Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.25.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H/E:P/U:Amber

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 22 Jul 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: evidence found.

    CVSS exploit maturity: proof of concept public

  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), CVSS vector, the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 1 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Unbound to 1.25.2.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
NLnet LabsUnboundAffected
  • >=1.4.22 <1.25.2
Fixed in
  • 1.25.2

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released fixed unbound packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and its variants. Users should apply these official updates as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2026:68292) and the referenced article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the vulnerability. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the update.

Description

A moderate severity security vulnerability (CVE-2026-50252) affects the unbound DNS resolver in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The flaw involves DNS cache poisoning via UDP source port predictability. Red Hat has released security updates addressing this issue in unbound packages for multiple architectures and variants of RHEL 9. Users are advised to apply the provided updates to mitigate the risk.

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