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CVE-2025-11232 (GCVE-0-2025-11232)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 18:02 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:09
VLAI
Title
Invalid characters cause assert
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-29 18:22 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-823 - Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ISC Kea Affected: 3.0.1 , ≤ 3.0.1 (custom)
Affected: 3.1.1 , ≤ 3.1.2 (custom)
Unaffected: 2.6.0 , ≤ 2.6.4 (custom)
Unaffected: 2.7.0 , ≤ 2.7.9 (custom)
Unaffected: 3.0.0 , ≤ 3.0.0 (custom)
Unaffected: 3.1.0 , ≤ 3.1.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-10-29 00:00
Credits
ISC would like to thank Siniša Uskoković and Ralf Steuer from Vienna University of Economics and Business for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.
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