CVE-2022-30699

Publication date 1 August 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire. The rogue nameserver delays the response so that the cached delegation information is expired. Upon receiving the delayed answer containing the delegation information, Unbound overwrites the now expired entries. This action can be repeated when the delegation information is about to expire making the rogue delegation information ever-updating. From version 1.16.2 on, Unbound stores the start time for a query and uses that to decide if the cached delegation information can be overwritten.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
unbound	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.16.2-1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.16.2-1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1.16.2-1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1.16.2-1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1.16.2-1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2022-30698

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
unbound	Upstream: f6753a0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5569-1
Unbound vulnerabilities
16 August 2022