CVE-2020-7461
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.1%
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r365010, 11.4-STABLE before r365011, 12.1-RELEASE before p9, 11.4-RELEASE before p3, and 11.3-RELEASE before p13, dhclient(8) fails to handle certain malformed input related to handling of DHCP option 119 resulting a heap overflow. The heap overflow could in principle be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The affected process runs with reduced privileges in a Capsicum sandbox, limiting the immediate impact of an exploit.
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.3 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - CVSS v2.0
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 4.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 90th percentile
- Published
- 2021-03-26
- Updated
- 2024-08-04
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- 0xkol/freebsd-dhclient-poc1★ · 2022-11-30
- knqyf263/CVE-2020-746115★ · 2021-04-14