CVE-2025-11411

NameCVE-2025-11411
DescriptionNLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.24.0 is vulnerable to possible domain hijack attacks. Promiscuous NS RRSets that complement positive DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick resolvers to update their delegation information for the zone. Usually these RRSets are used to update the resolver's knowledge of the zone's name servers. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting NS RRSets (and possibly their respective address records) in a reply. This could be done for example by trying to spoof a packet or fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then proceed to update the NS RRSet data it already has since the new data has enough trust for it, i.e., in-zone data for the delegation point. Unbound 1.24.1 includes a fix that scrubs unsolicited NS RRSets (and their respective address records) from replies mitigating the possible poison effect.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
unbound (PTS)bullseye1.13.1-1+deb11u2vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.13.1-1+deb11u5vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.17.1-2+deb12u3vulnerable
trixie1.22.0-2vulnerable
forky, sid1.24.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
unboundsource(unstable)1.24.1-1

Notes

https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2025-11411.txt
Fixed by: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/commit/a33f0638e1dacf2633cf2292078a674576bca852 (release-1.24.1)

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