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SCA: security update for github.com/coredns/coredns (GHSA-74w3-63xv-x9mv)
low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 476081
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- 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.
(CVE-2026-62994)
Solution
Update the github.com/coredns/coredns library and its related packages to version 1.14.5 or later.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 476081
Version: Revision 1.1
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 10/16/2026
Updated: 10/16/2026
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 1.2
Percentile: 0.01
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 2.6
Temporal Score: 2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-62994
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.7
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2026
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2026-62994