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high 7.5

CVE-2026-26018 json

CoreDNS Loop Detection Denial of Service Vulnerability

published 2026-03-06 8 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2026-10043 , GHSA-h75p-j8xm-m278 , GO-2026-4635

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. Prior to version 1.14.2, a denial of service vulnerability exists in CoreDNS's loop detection plugin that allows an attacker to crash the DNS server by sending specially crafted DNS queries. The vulnerability stems from the use of a predictable pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) for generating a secret query name, combined with a fatal error handler that terminates the entire process. This issue has been patched in version 1.14.2.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/coredns/coredns 1.14.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 1782924920, 1782924937
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 1780204232, 1780204249
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 1774086225
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
  • coredns openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.14.2-bp160.1.1
  • coredns openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.14.2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20619-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10297-1

  • coredns Azure Linux 3.0 1.11.4-15

azure linux advisories AZL-79500

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-26018 updated cvss 7.5

github.com/coredns/coredns: CoreDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability due to predictable pseudo-random number generation

  • Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 rhcl-1/coredns-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9 1782924920, rhacm2/lighthouse-coredns-rhel9 1782924937
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36873
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9 1780204232, rhacm2/lighthouse-coredns-rhel9 1780204249
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:25127
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 rhacm2 1774086225
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:8151
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 rhacm2/subctl-rhel9 1782945263, rhacm2/nettest-rhel9 1782926302, rhacm2/submariner-gateway-rhel9 1782925247, rhacm2/submariner-rhel9-operator 1782933193, rhacm2/submariner-globalnet-rhel9 1782925266, rhacm2/submariner-operator-bundle 1783001304, +1 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 rhacm2/subctl-rhel9 1780238563, rhacm2/nettest-rhel9 1780241410, rhacm2/submariner-gateway-rhel9 1780204887, rhacm2/submariner-rhel9-operator 1780204322, rhacm2/submariner-globalnet-rhel9 1780204696, rhacm2/submariner-operator-bundle 1780248353, +1 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 rhacm2 1774084104, rhacm2 1774085848, rhacm2 1774332596, rhacm2 1774372741, rhacm2 1774550347, rhacm2 1774550350, +2 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-coredns-rhel9
    not affected: component 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/coredns/coredns/security/advisories/GHSA-h75p-j8xm-m278 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/coredns/coredns
<1.14.2
1.14.2

Affected products

  • coredns coredns
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Connectivity Link 1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-337 Predictable Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1241 Use of Predictable Algorithm in Random Number Generator

References

Sources

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