vulnerability

Rocky Linux: CVE-2025-5994: unbound (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Oct 3, 2025
Added
Feb 5, 2026
Modified
Feb 5, 2026

Description

A multi-vendor cache poisoning vulnerability named 'Rebirthday Attack' has been discovered in caching resolvers that support EDNS Client Subnet (ECS). Unbound is also vulnerable when compiled with ECS support, i.e., '--enable-subnet', AND configured to send ECS information along with queries to upstream name servers, i.e., at least one of the 'send-client-subnet', 'client-subnet-zone' or 'client-subnet-always-forward' options is used. Resolvers supporting ECS need to segregate outgoing queries to accommodate for different outgoing ECS information. This re-opens up resolvers to a birthday paradox attack (Rebirthday Attack) that tries to match the DNS transaction ID in order to cache non-ECS poisonous replies.

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