CVE-2026-14586

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 62/100
Published: 2026-07-22 Modified: 2026-10-24 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: High
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, in DNS-over-QUIC environments, with high concurrency and under pressure, an assertion in libngtcp2 about monotonic timestamps could trigger and result in server termination and thus denial of service. When interfacing with libngtcp2, for DNS-over-QUIC support in Unbound, it is expected to use monotonic time. Unbound was using realtime instead, and in DoQ environments with high concurrency and under pressure, an assert in libngtcp2 for the quic timestamp would trigger and terminate the server.This vulnerability needs Unbound to be compiled with DoQ support ('--with-libngtcp2') and the 'quic-port' to be configured for the listening interfaces.

Weakness Classification (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

62 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.9 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.37%
Raw Score 0.003670
Percentile 30.5%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00367
2026-10-28
0.00367

Intelligence Sources

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