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CVE-2011-4528

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4528 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Unbound DNS resolver versions prior to 1.4.13p2. It allows a remote malicious DNS server to crash the Unbound daemon by sending a crafted response containing duplicate CNAME records in a signed zone, leading to an attempt to free unallocated memory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:unbound:unbound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:unbound:unbound:0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:unbound:unbound:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:unbound:unbound:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:unbound:unbound:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0294 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071525.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071535.html
osvdb.org / 77909
secunia.com / advisories/47326
unbound.nlnetlabs.nl / downloads/CVE-2011-4528.txt
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2370
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/209659
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource