CVE-2026-44932highCWE-78

CVE-2026-44932: high-severity vulnerability in SUSE wicked

indirect remote shell command injection via unsanitized DHCP options in wicked

Published · Updated

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 60% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
SUSE · wicked
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References
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265221https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/releases/tag/version-0.6.79https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026688.htmlhttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026689.htmlhttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026690.htmlhttps://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2026-June/026691.html