CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40779
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
If a DHCPv4 client sends a request with some specific options, and Kea fails to find an appropriate subnet for the client, the `kea-dhcp4` process will abort with an assertion failure. This happens only if the client request is unicast directly to Kea; broadcast messages do not cause the problem.
This issue affects Kea versions 2.7.1 through 2.7.9, 3.0.0, and 3.1.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40779 kb.isc.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/27/1 www.openwall.com