CVE-2026-42511 (GCVE-0-2026-42511)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-30 06:56
Modified
2026-05-01 15:25
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-149 - Improper Neutralization of Quoting Syntax
Summary
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.
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