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CVE-2019-25031 json

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows configuration injection in create_unbound_ad_servers.sh upon a successful man-in-the-middle attack against a cl…

published 5y ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2019-11481

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unbound before 1.9.5 allows configuration injection in create_unbound_ad_servers.sh upon a successful man-in-the-middle attack against a cleartext HTTP session. NOTE: The vendor does not consider this a vulnerability of the Unbound software. create_unbound_ad_servers.sh is a contributed script from the community that facilitates automatic configuration creation. It is not part of the Unbound installation

Patch / fix

  • nlnetlabs unbound 1.9.5
  • unbound Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-25031

  • unbound Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.4
  • unbound Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-25031

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • unbound SLES 15 SP2-BCL, SLES 15 SP1-BCL, SLE Real Time 15 SP2 +14 more 1.6.8-10.6.1
  • unbound SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 1.6.8-3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:0176-2SUSE-SU-2022:0301-1SUSE-SU-2022:0176-1

  • unbound openSUSE Leap 15.3 1.6.8-10.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2022:0176-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-25031 updated cvss 5.9

unbound: configuration injection in create_unbound_ad_servers.sh upon a successful man-in-the-middle attack against a cleartext HTTP session

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 unbound, unbound-libs, unbound-python
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 unbound, unbound-libs, unbound-python Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 unbound, unbound-libs, python3-unbound Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 unbound, unbound-libs, unbound-dracut, python3-unbound
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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