{"id":"AZL-92964","summary":"CVE-2026-42955 affecting package unbound for versions less than 1.25.2-1","details":"In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 up to and including 1.25.1, a similar vulnerability as with CVE-2026-40622 in the 'ghost domain names' family of attacks was found in Unbound that could extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value for A/AAAA glue records. Similar to other 'ghost domain names' attacks, an adversary needs to control a (ghost) zone and be able to query a vulnerable Unbound. A single client A/AAAA query can cause Unbound to overwrite the cached expired parent-side glue rrset and essentially extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value ('cache-max-ttl'). In configurations where 'harden-referral-path: yes' is used (non-default configuration), no client query is required since Unbound implicitly performs that query. This is a variant of CVE-2026-40622 which only addressed the NS query.","modified":"2026-08-28T17:47:18.631359181Z","published":"2026-07-22T14:17:18Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-42955"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42955"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"unbound","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/unbound"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.25.2-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-92964.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}