CVE-2026-44932 (GCVE-0-2026-44932)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-16 15:26 – Updated: 2026-06-18 03:55
VLAI?
Title
indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked
Summary
Passing of unsanitized strings from DHCP replies into the wicked dhcp client before wicked 0.6.79 could be used by attackers operating a malicious DHCP server to execute code on the local machine.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE wicked Affected: 0 , < 0.6.79 (semver)
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Credits
Wolfgang Frisch using Claude Opus
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