# CVE-2026-32934: CoreDNS DNS-over-QUIC unbounded goroutine growth leads to denial of service

- Also known as: GO-2026-4969, GHSA-2WPX-QPW2-G5H5
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14.3
- Published: 2026-05-05 · Updated: 2026-05-06

## Affected

- coredns: fixed in 1.14.3
- github.com/coredns/coredns (Go): fixed in 1.14.3

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on coredns, github.com/coredns/coredns, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/security/advisories/GHSA-2wpx-qpw2-g5h5
- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.14.3

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