CVE-2026-32934CWE-770

CoreDNS DNS-over-QUIC unbounded goroutine growth leads to denial of service

High · published May 5, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. In versions prior to 1.14.3, the DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) server can be driven into unbounded goroutine and memory growth by a remote client that opens many QUIC streams and sends only 1 byte per stream. When the worker pool is full, CoreDNS still spawns a goroutine per accepted stream to wait for a worker token. Additionally, active workers block indefinitely in io.ReadFull() with no per-stream read deadline, allowing an attacker to pin all workers by sending a single byte so the read blocks waiting for the second byte of the DoQ length prefix. This enables an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause memory exhaustion and OOM-kill. This issue has been fixed in version 1.14.3. No known workarounds exist.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00633 · 49.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-05T19:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAY 19:06Z
    CoreDNS DNS-over-QUIC unbounded goroutine growth leads to denial of service
    cvelistv5