CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-54478

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Published: Jul 22, 2026 | Modified: Jul 22, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.18.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound listens on a proxy-protocol-port interface with answer-cookie: yes, the RFC 9018 server-cookie SipHash is computed over the proxys wire address instead of the PROXYv2-declared client. One server cookie obtained through a given proxy node therefore validates for every PROXYv2-declared source behind that node. On a UDP+proxy-protocol front, an off-path attacker can harvest one cookie with a single legitimate query, then replay it under any spoofed source and pass DNS Cookie checks that were deployed to defeat this in the first place.

Weakness

This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
UnboundUbuntuupstream*

References