CVE-2026-26018

high Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: March 6, 2026
Last Modified: March 6, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. Prior to version 1.14.2, a denial of service vulnerability exists in CoreDNS's loop detection plugin that allows an attacker to crash the DNS server by sending specially crafted DNS queries. The vulnerability stems from the use of a predictable pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) for generating a secret query name, combined with a fatal error handler that terminates the entire process. This issue has been patched in version 1.14.2.

CWE

CWE-1241

Affected Products

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat Connectivity Link 1Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

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