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CVE-2026-44932indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 70% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By suse
- 39 days later
· 39 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| suseCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
References
References6
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
- https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-37127 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-44932)Record last updated .