Bug 2537311 - CVE-2026-77955 unbound: Unbound: ZONEMD verification bypass due to asynchronous DNSSEC resolution [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-77955 unbound: Unbound: ZONEMD verification bypass due to asynchrono...
Keywords:
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unbound
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Wouters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["e5591428-0400-4766-a705-b...
Depends On:
Blocks: CVE-2026-77955
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-21 05:53 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-09-21 05:53 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-09-21 05:53:29 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.13.2 up to and including 1.26.1, a vulnerability in ZONEMD configured zones (zonemd-check: yes) which are located below (but not at) a trust anchor allow for an attack window where (tampered with) zone contents are served (or stored to disk) prior to the ZONEMD integrity check. This is caused by the needed DS/DNSKEY asynchronous resolution that needs to happen before the ZONEMD check completes. If a zonefile is written to disk (zonefile: option) while the ZONEMD check failed, the tampered data are reloaded on startup and available until ZONEMD verification concludes again. If verification fails, the data is not served any more but still persists on disk for future reloads.


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.