CVE-2020-12662

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12662

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12662.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-14

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.10.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.10.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.10.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.10.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.10.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.10.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.