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CVE-2026-42511

HIGH CVSS: 8.1 Published: 2026-04-30 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-149

References