CVE-2026-62994

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-62994
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-62994.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-62994
Aliases
Downstream
AZL (1)
ECHO (1)
MINI (19)
Published
2026-07-16T19:39:05Z
Modified
2026-10-28T02:31:00Z
Severity
  • 3.7 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
CoreDNS `k8s_external` headless AXFR can emit an empty transfer batch that panics the `transfer` plugin
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-248",
        "CWE-755"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/62xxx/CVE-2026-62994.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/coredns/coredns

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/coredns/coredns
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:coredns.io:coredns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.9.4"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "1.14.5"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "ab318db7b4a3a19273852ed627f54888198c8efb"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag": "v1.14.5",
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "adba3b3703408ffe80bc03a7be0f6ea9c2372399"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.10.0
v1.10.1
v1.11.0
v1.11.1
v1.11.3
v1.11.4
v1.12.0
v1.12.1
v1.12.2
v1.12.3
v1.12.4
v1.13.0
v1.13.1
v1.13.2
v1.14.0
v1.14.1
v1.14.2
v1.14.3
v1.14.4
v1.9.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-62994.json"