CVE-2026-56117CWE-416

dhcpcd Heap Use-After-Free via Control Socket Handling

Medium · published June 23, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 78ea09e, contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the control socket handling within src/control.c that allows local unprivileged attackers to trigger memory corruption when privilege separation is disabled. Attackers can connect to the control socket and send a privileged command such as -x, causing control_recvdata() to free the client object while the same READ+HANGUP event subsequently reaches control_hangup() with the stale pointer, resulting in a use-after-free condition exploitable in deployments using --disable-privsep or where privsep initialization has failed with the control socket operating in mode 0666.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00135 · 2.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-06-23T16:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JUN 16:14Z
    dhcpcd Heap Use-After-Free via Control Socket Handling
    cvelistv5