Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-80225
In NLnetLabs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a degradation of service vulnerability is present in the TCP/DoT reading procedure where there is no limit on consecutive reads. A malicious actor that can stream and sustain a rate of distinct uncached names over the TCP/DoT connection, monopolizes a single worker's entire event loop for as long as its writes stay ahead of the drain.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 24.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3