CVE-2026-44932indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221 issue-tracking
• https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79 release-notes
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html vendor-advisory
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html vendor-advisory
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html vendor-advisory
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html vendor-advisory