High severity · published Oct 23, 2026
CVE-2026-53920
odhcpd DHCPv6 Short IA_NA/IA_PD Body Stack Disclosure
New
8.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
odhcpd is the DHCPv6, DHCPv4, and router-advertisement server used by OpenWrt. From version 17.01.0 to before version 25.12.3, odhcpd's DHCPv6 IA parser accepts an IA_NA or IA_PD option whose body is shorter than struct dhcpv6_ia_hdr, casts the option header to that full structure, and reads ia->iaid before proving that the IA body contains the IAID field. If an unauthenticated network-adjacent client places a zero-length or otherwise short IA option at the end of odhcpd's 8192-byte receive stack buffer, the IAID read crosses from data_buf into adjacent stack memory. The disclosed bytes are then reflected in the DHCPv6 reply IAID; prior ARM validation showed data_buf[8192:8196] disclosing the saved stack canary, and wider stack scans can leak ASLR-useful stack/process contents. This issue has been patched in version 25.12.3.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 34% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OD
odhcpd · openwrt
>= 17.01.0, < 25.12.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53920
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53920
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/719fc3abc0d7e7059871f9f572fb05ada86b8ff2
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/f2275efc72a87a95f971f159babcbadc5d241d42
github.com
https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/security/advisories/GHSA-p769-5v73-pc4f
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