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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2026-44932 json

indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked

published 2026-06-16 4 mo ago modified 2026-10-25 14 d ago also EUVD-2026-37127

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • SUSE wicked 0.6.79
  • wicked SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 0.6.79-150400.3.39.1
  • wicked SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.5 +2 more 0.6.79-150500.3.42.1
  • wicked SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 0.6.79-150700.3.3.1
  • wicked SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS 0.6.79-150600.11.20.1
  • wicked SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 0.6.79-3.56.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3840-1SUSE-SU-2026:2354-1SUSE-SU-2026:2353-1SUSE-SU-2026:2350-1SUSE-SU-2026:2349-1

  • wicked openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.6.79-bp160.1.1
  • wicked openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.6.79-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20949-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11018-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-44932 updated cvss 8.8

wicked: wicked: Arbitrary code execution via unsanitized DHCP replies

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • SUSE wicked

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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