CVE-2026-30872CWE-121

OpenWrt Project has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability via IPv6 reverse DNS lookup

Critical · published March 19, 2026

CVSS v4.0
9.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
66.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. In versions prior to 24.10.6 and 25.12.1, the mdns daemon has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the match_ipv6_addresses function, triggered when processing PTR queries for IPv6 reverse DNS domains (.ip6.arpa) received via multicast DNS on UDP port 5353. During processing, the domain name from name_buffer is copied via strcpy into a fixed 256-byte stack buffer, and then the reverse IPv6 request is extracted into a buffer of only 46 bytes (INET6_ADDRSTRLEN). Because the length of the data is never validated before this extraction, an attacker can supply input larger than 46 bytes, causing an out-of-bounds write. This allows a specially crafted DNS query to overflow the stack buffer in match_ipv6_addresses, potentially enabling remote code execution. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.10.6 and 25.12.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
9.5 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
EPSS
0.01138 · 66.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-03-19T21:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 MAR 21:56Z
    OpenWrt Project has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability via IPv6 reverse DNS lookup
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