CVE-2026-44932

indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jun 16, 2026
Updated: Jun 18, 2026
Reserved: May 8, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wickedSUSE	before 0.6.79Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221issue-tracking
https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79release-notes
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.htmlvendor-advisory
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.htmlvendor-advisory
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.htmlvendor-advisory
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.htmlvendor-advisory

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