# CVE-2026-82399: CoreDNS: Unauthenticated memory exhaustion in custom transports

- Also known as: GO-2026-6507, GHSA-MRG3-QVQR-JW29
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.14.7
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- coredns: fixed in 1.14.7
- github.com/coredns/coredns (Go): fixed in 1.14.7

## Description

CoreDNS is a DNS server written in Go. Prior to 1.14.7, the DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-HTTP/3, DNS-over-QUIC, and DNS-over-gRPC request paths in plugin/pkg/doh/doh.go, core/dnsserver/server_quic.go, and core/dnsserver/server_grpc.go call dns.Msg.Unpack on attacker-controlled DNS section counts before dns.DefaultMsgAcceptFunc validates the fixed header. An unauthenticated client can use DNS name compression and excessive section counts to amplify allocation before the plugin chain, so plugin-level rate limiting cannot prevent concurrent requests from exhausting memory and terminating CoreDNS. The ordinary UDP and TCP listeners are not affected because they validate the header first. This issue is fixed in version 1.14.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on coredns, github.com/coredns/coredns, upgrade to a fixed version (1.14.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/security/advisories/GHSA-mrg3-qvqr-jw29
- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/commit/530b0a5ff2ad68cc0421f10dd93568945cc671c9
- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.14.7

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