CVE-2025-68151 is a resource exhaustion vulnerability affecting CoreDNS versions prior to 1.14.0, specifically impacting its gRPC, HTTPS, and HTTP/3 server implementations. An unauthenticated remote attacker can degrade or crash the server by initiating numerous concurrent connections, streams, or sending excessively large request bodies, leading to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:coredns.io:coredns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
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/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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CoreDNS gRPC/HTTPS/HTTP3 servers lack resource limits, enabling DoS via unbounded connections and oversized messages
Jan 13, 2026CoreDNS gRPC/HTTPS/HTTP3 servers lack resource limits, enabling DoS via unbounded connections and oversized messages
Jan 8, 2026github.com/coredns/coredns/core/dnsserver: CoreDNS DoS via unbounded connections and oversized messages
Jan 8, 2026