High severity · published Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2026-44932
indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked
8.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WI
wicked · SUSE
before 0.6.79 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44932
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44932
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221
github.com
https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79
lists.suse.com
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.html
lists.suse.com
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.html
lists.suse.com
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.html
lists.suse.com
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html
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