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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-42960

high Nessus Plugin ID 315763

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to poisoning via promiscuous records for the authority section. Promiscuous RRSets that complement DNS replies in the authority section can be used to trick Unbound to cache such records. If an adversary is able to attach such records in a reply (i.e., spoofed packet, fragmentation attack) he would be able to poison Unbound's cache. A malicious actor can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting RRSets other than NS that are also accompanied by address records in a reply, for example MX. This could be achieved by trying to spoof a reply packet or fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then accept the relative address records in the additional section and cache them if the authority RRSet has enough trust at this point, i.e., in-zone data for the delegation point. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix that disregards address records from the additional section if they are not explicitly relevant only to authority NS records, mitigating the possible poison effect. This is a complement fix to CVE-2025-11411. (CVE-2026-42960)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-42960

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-42960

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 315763

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_42960.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/20/2026

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.8

Percentile: 96.91

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42960

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-unbound, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-anchor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-anchor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-python, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-unbound, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:unbound, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-dracut, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-dracut, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-utils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42960