Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Affecting github.com/coredns/coredns/plugin/pkg/proxy package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMCOREDNSCOREDNSPLUGINPKGPROXY-12558120
  • published9 Sept 2025
  • disclosed18 Sept 2024
  • creditXiang Li

Introduced: 18 Sep 2024

CVE-2023-30464  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-290  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for github.com/coredns/coredns/plugin/pkg/proxy.

Overview

github.com/coredns/coredns/plugin/pkg/proxy is a package that implements a forwarding proxy. It caches an upstream net.Conn for some time, so if the same client returns the upstream's Conn will be precached.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing via a birthday attack. An attacker can inject fake DNS responses and manipulate DNS queries by exploiting the vulnerability in the DNS resolution process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1