{"id":"CVE-2026-35501","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-35501","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:45:26.852Z","title":"When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor with…","description":"When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor with a forged NSEC reply with the SOA bit cleared can trick Unbound to treat the configured trust island as insecure. This happens because the DNSSEC validator in Unbound accepts and caches the NSEC insecure response bypassing the RRSIG validation that the validator was supposed to do. The acceptance of the NSEC record at the trust anchor apex was allowed due to and old fix for type DS and NSEC queries from clients when trust anchor for that name existed.","published":"2026-10-21T09:17:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-22T15:22:41.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"sep@nlnetlabs.nl","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":3.7,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-354"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00111,"percentile":0.01308,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-21","score":0.0011,"percentile":0.01198}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-21T09:17:07.000Z","detail":{"score":"3.7","severity":"LOW","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T09:17:07.373Z"},"summary":"New CVE, low severity (CVSS 3.7)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-35501.txt","source":"sep@nlnetlabs.nl"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35501","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}