CVE-2026-42511

EUVD-2026-26350
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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
8.1 HIGH
NETWORK
HIGH
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 11%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
freebsdfreebsd
13.5
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:beta3
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p1
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p10
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p11
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p12
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p2
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p3
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p4
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p5
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p6
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p7
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p8
freebsdfreebsd
13.5:p9
freebsdfreebsd
14.3
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p1
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p10
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p11
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p2
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p3
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p4
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p5
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p6
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p7
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p8
freebsdfreebsd
14.3:p9
freebsdfreebsd
14.4
freebsdfreebsd
14.4:p1
freebsdfreebsd
14.4:p2
freebsdfreebsd
14.4:rc1
freebsdfreebsd
15.0
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p1
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p2
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p3
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p4
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p5
freebsdfreebsd
15.0:p6
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= Vulnerable software versions