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CVE-2019-19794
The miekg Go DNS package before 1.1.25, as used in CoreDNS before 1.6.6 and other products, improperly generates random numbers because…
Medium5.9EPSS 2.1%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
The miekg Go DNS package before 1.1.25, as used in CoreDNS before 1.6.6 and other products, improperly generates random numbers because math/rand is used. The TXID becomes predictable, leading to response forgeries.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/miekg/dnsGHSA-44r7-7p62-q3fr (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/miekg/dns/issues/1043 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/3519 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/miekg/dns/pull/1044 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/miekg/dns/compare/v1.1.24...v1.1.25 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/3547 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-44r7-7p62-q3fr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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