Bug 2506146 (CVE-2026-54478) - CVE-2026-54478 unbound: Unbound: DNS Cookie security bypass via incorrect server cookie calculation
Summary: CVE-2026-54478 unbound: Unbound: DNS Cookie security bypass via incorrect ser...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-54478
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2507454
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Reported: 2026-07-22 14:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-27 16:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-22 14:02:40 UTC
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a 'proxy-protocol-port' interface with 'answer-cookie: yes', the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxy's wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a given proxy node therefore validates for every PROXYv2-declared source behind that node. On a UDP+proxy-protocol front, an off-path attacker can harvest one cookie with a single legitimate query, then replay it under any spoofed source and pass DNS Cookie checks that were deployed to defeat this in the first place.


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