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CVE-2026-62994

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 0.29% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-07-16 · Last synced 2026-08-15

CyberRota Analysis

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CoreDNS versions 1.9.4 to 1.14.5 are vulnerable to a panic condition triggered by a network DNS client requesting AXFR for a zone when configured with Kubernetes headless service zone transfers that lack declared ports. This vulnerability could lead to service disruptions in environments utilizing Kubernetes. Organizations running affected versions of CoreDNS should prioritize upgrading to version 1.14.5 to mitigate potential impacts on DNS service stability.

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CVE
CVE-2026-62994
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
0.29%
Kubernetes

Original NVD Description

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.

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