CVE record · CVE-2024-1488

Unbound: unrestricted reconfiguration enabled to anyone that may lead to local privilege escalation

CVSS 8.0 HighEPSS 0.0032 · 25th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 15 Feb 2024, 05:04 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: unbound https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unbound/	affected 1.16.2 Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.16.2-5.el8_9.6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.16.2-5.8.el8_10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-12.el8_2.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-12.el8_2.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-12.el8_2.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-15.el8_4.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-15.el8_4.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-15.el8_4.1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.7.3-17.el8_6.4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.16.2-5.el8_8.4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.16.2-3.el9_3.5 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.13.1-13.el9_0.4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:1.16.2-3.el9_2.4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: unbound https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-1488
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-276
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support
Broken access control
Published: 15 Feb 2024
Updated: 4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.0	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

15 Feb 2024, 05:04 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
15 Feb 2024, 05:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1750 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1751 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1780 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1801 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1802 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1804 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2587 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2696 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0837 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1488 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264183 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.