CVE-2026-42511
HIGH
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.03
BB Relevance:
66/100
Published: 2026-04-30
Modified: 2026-11-11
First seen: 2026-11-11
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
No Auth
No Interaction
Conf. Impact
Integ. Impact
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
High
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
High
I:
High
A:
High
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.
Weakness Classification (1)
Affected Software (37)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 13.5 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.3 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.4 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.4 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.4 |
| freebsd | freebsd | 14.4 |
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References & Advisories (1)
Vendor Advisory