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High 8.8Published Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2026-44932Passing 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.
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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.
- CVSS
- 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Jun 18, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
No affected products are listed yet.
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221
- https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html
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