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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-28452

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.

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3 Nov 2026, 12:24 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2023-28452

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Sept 2024, 00:00 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2023-28452
Complete source record
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