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SCA: security update for github.com/coredns/coredns (GHSA-hfmw-7g3m-gj6q)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415689

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in CoreDNS through 1.10.1. There is a vulnerability in DNS resolving software,
 which triggers a resolver to ignore valid responses, thus causing denial of service for normal resolution.
 In an exploit, the attacker could just forge a response targeting the source port of a vulnerable resolver
 without the need to guess the correct TXID. (CVE-2023-28452)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hfmw-7g3m-gj6q

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415689

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28452

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28452

cwe: CWE-290