8.1

CVE-2026-42511

Medienbericht

Remote code execution via malicious DHCP options

The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dhclient.conf directives.  When the lease file is subsequently re-parsed by dhclient, e.g., after a system restart, an attacker-controlled field from the lease is passed to dhclient-script(8), which evaluates it.

A rogue DHCP server may be able to execute arbirary code as root on a system running dhclient.
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.43% 0.342
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
CISA-ADP 8.1 2.2 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-149 Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax

Quotes injected into a product can be used to compromise a system. As data are parsed, an injected/absent/duplicate/malformed use of quotes may cause the process to take unexpected actions.

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04.05.2026 17:53
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:12.dhclient.asc
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