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CVE-2026-42511
CVE
High

The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dhclient.conf di…

CVSS
8.1
High
EPSS
0.00
p11
Published
2026-01-01
Updated
2026-01-01
Description

The BOOTP file field is written to the lease file without escaping embedded double-quotes, allowing injection of arbitrary dhclient.conf directives. When the lease file is subsequently re-parsed by dhclient, e.g., after a system restart, an attacker-controlled field from the lease is passed to dhclient-script(8), which evaluates it. A rogue DHCP server may be able to execute arbirary code as root on a system running dhclient.

Tags · CWE
Pre-auth
CWE-149
CAPEC-468
Affected products
Freebsd
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
2026-01-01
Published
2026-01-01
Updated
CVSS 3.1 breakdown
Attack Vector
AV: N
Network (N)
Attack Complexity
AC: H
High (H)
Privileges Required
PR: N
None (N)
User Interaction
UI: N
None (N)
Scope
S: U
Unchanged (U)
Confidentiality Impact
C: H
High (H)
Integrity Impact
I: H
High (H)
Availability Impact
A: H
High (H)
Exploit indicators
EPSS
0.000 · p11
Known exploited (KEV)
No
Known exploits — Сканер-ВС
No Сканер-ВС checks registered for this vulnerability yet.
Affected software
ProductVendorStatus
freebsd*Tracked