Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting github.com/coredns/coredns/core/plugin package, versions <1.14.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCOREDNSCOREDNSCOREPLUGIN-14912454
  • published11 Jan 2026
  • disclosed8 Jan 2026
  • creditVille Vesilehto

Introduced: 8 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-68151  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/coredns/coredns/core/plugin to version 1.14.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the lack of resource-limiting controls in the gRPC, HTTPS, and HTTP3 server implementations. An attacker can exhaust memory and cause the server to degrade or crash by opening numerous concurrent connections or streams, or sending oversized request bodies.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1