# CVE-2025-11232: Invalid characters cause assert

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-29 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- ISC Kea: 3.0.1 only; from 3.1.1, through 3.1.2

## Description

To trigger the issue, three configuration parameters must have specific settings: "hostname-char-set" must be left at the default setting, which is "[^A-Za-z0-9.-]"; "hostname-char-replacement" must be empty (the default); and "ddns-qualifying-suffix" must *NOT* be empty (the default is empty). DDNS updates do not need to be enabled for this issue to manifest. A client that sends certain option content would then cause kea-dhcp4 to exit unexpectedly. This issue affects Kea versions 3.0.1 through 3.0.1 and 3.1.1 through 3.1.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ISC Kea, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-11232

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