Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2837

Medium

Published: 03 March 2023

Published
03 March 2023
Modified
07 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0030 53.7th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2837 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints (CWE-923) vulnerability in Coredns.Io Coredns. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in coreDNS. This flaw allows a malicious user to redirect traffic intended for external top-level domains (TLD) to a pod they control by creating projects and namespaces that match the TLD.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

coredns.io
coredns
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-923

Authorizing wireless access restricts the wireless communication channel to only intended endpoints.

addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-923

Approving specific exchanges and documenting interface characteristics restricts communication channels to only intended endpoints and systems.

addresses: CWE-923

Limits physical connectivity to transmission channels, supporting restriction of communication paths to only intended endpoints.

addresses: CWE-923

Requiring providers to meet communication-channel restrictions and monitoring adherence reduces improper restriction of channels to intended endpoints.

addresses: CWE-923

Mandates restriction of the channel for authentication to only the intended trusted endpoints, blocking unauthorized communication paths.

addresses: CWE-923

Explicit control of VoIP traffic forces organizations to restrict communication channels to only intended endpoints and protocols.

addresses: CWE-923

Explicit internal/external separation restricts name-resolution channels to their intended communication endpoints.

References