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CVE-2026-44932

HIGH
8.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-44932
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
suse
Reserved
2026-05-08 12:29 UTC
Published
2026-06-16 15:26 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-18 03:55 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-78
CWE-78
Vendor / Product
SUSE / wicked
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

8.8 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
SUSE wicked — 0 < 0.6.79
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-78 cna CWE-78
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
8.8 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References (6)
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