๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-44932

HIGH 8.8

indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-78
Vendor suse
Product wicked
Published Jun 16, 2026
Last Updated Jun 16, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

SUSE / wicked
0 < 0.6.79

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
bugzilla.suse.com: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221 github.com: https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79 lists.suse.com: https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html lists.suse.com: https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html lists.suse.com: https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html lists.suse.com: https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html

Credits

Wolfgang Frisch using Claude Opus