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CVE-2022-3204

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3204, dubbed the 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack), affects various DNS resolving software, including Unbound and Fedora's DNS resolvers. This vulnerability allows an attacker to craft a malicious DNS delegation with numerous unresponsive nameservers, causing resolvers to expend significant resources and time attempting to resolve records under this delegation. The attack has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to high availability impact, potentially resulting in degraded performance and denial of service. While Unbound versions 1.16.3 and later include fixes to mitigate this, the vulnerability is not currently known to be actively exploited, nor is there publicly available exploit code or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.16.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:nlnetlabs:unbound:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18602-16823Fixed in: 1.16.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 unbound 1.10.0-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 1.10.0-5
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 unbound 1.16.3-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.16.3-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18601-16820Fixed in: 1.10.0-5
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: unbound-0:1.7.3-17.el8_6.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: unbound-0:1.16.2-5.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: unbound-0:1.16.2-3.el9
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-3204Moderate

unbound: NRDelegation attack leads to uncontrolled resource consumption (Non-Responsive Delegation Attack)

Sep 21, 2022
microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-3204Important

NRDelegation Attack

Sep 13, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00024.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/35QGS5FBQTG3DBSK7QV67PA64P24ABHY
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3G2HS6CYPSIGAKO6QLEZPG3RD6AMPB7B
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4S4EU6DMJXQFMAIE6SLAH4H5RNRU6VQL
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202212-02
Third Party Advisory
nlnetlabs.nl / downloads/unbound/CVE-2022-3204.txt
Vendor Advisory