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CVE-2026-53920EUVD-2026-108968GHSA-P769-5V73-PC4F

odhcpd DHCPv6 Short IA_NA/IA_PD Body Stack Disclosure

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 25.12.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

odhcpd, the DHCPv6/DHCPv4 and router-advertisement server used by OpenWrt, is affected by this flaw. An unauthenticated client on the local network can send a malformed DHCPv6 IA option that causes the server to read and echo back adjacent stack memory, potentially exposing sensitive data such as the stack canary and information useful for bypassing ASLR.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • openwrt odhcpd

    From 17.01.0 · fixed in 25.12.3

References 3

GitHub · openwrt/odhcpd