# CVE-2020-10772: An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-11-27 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a unbound: unbound-1.6.6-5.el7\_8

## Description

An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Vulnerable versions of Unbound could still amplify an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target, even with a lower amplification ratio compared to versions of Unbound that shipped before the mentioned erratum. This issue is about the incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662, and it does not affect upstream versions of Unbound.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846026

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