What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-53920: odhcpd DHCPv6 Short IA_NA/IA_PD Body Stack Disclosure

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-23 · updated 2026-10-23
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

• openwrt odhcpd: from 17.01.0, < 25.12.3

References

• https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/719fc3abc0d7e7059871f9f572fb05ada86b8ff2
• https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/commit/f2275efc72a87a95f971f159babcbadc5d241d42
• https://github.com/openwrt/odhcpd/security/advisories/GHSA-p769-5v73-pc4f

Get alerted when CVE-2026-53920 or the next vulnerability affects your stack