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CVE-2026-62994 (GCVE-0-2026-62994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 19:39 – Updated: 2026-07-17 11:12
VLAI
Title
CoreDNS `k8s_external` headless AXFR can emit an empty transfer batch that panics the `transfer` plugin
Summary
CoreDNS is a DNS server written in Go. From 1.9.4 until 1.14.5, a network DNS client allowed to request AXFR for a CoreDNS zone can trigger a panic when CoreDNS is configured with k8s_external headless-service zone transfers and Kubernetes contains a headless service endpoint with no declared ports; plugin/kubernetes/object/endpoint.go creates Port: -1, plugin/k8s_external/msg_to_dns.go skips that service, plugin/k8s_external/transfer.go sends an empty []dns.RR batch, and plugin/transfer/transfer.go indexes records[0] without checking the batch is non-empty. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.5.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-17 11:12 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception
  • CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
coredns coredns Affected: >= 1.9.4, < 1.14.5
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