VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-42511

CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-04-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • secteam@freebsd.org: CWE-149

Primary references