CVE-2025-58063 — Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types in Coredns Coredns
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 9
Latest updateSep 17
Description
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. Starting in version 1.2.0 and prior to version 1.12.4, the CoreDNS etcd plugin contains a TTL confusion vulnerability where lease IDs are incorrectly used as TTL values, enabling DNS cache pinning attacks. This effectively creates a DoS condition for DNS resolution of affected services. The `TTL()` function in `plugin/etcd/etcd.go` incorrectly casts etcd lease IDs (64-bit integers) to uint32 and uses them as TTL values. Large lease IDs become very lar…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 4.2