CVE-2026-30872

CRITICAL EPSS 80.5%
Published Mar 19, 20263mo ago · Modified Mar 24, 20263mo ago
9.5 CVSS 4.0
Critical
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Published Mar 19, 2026 3mo ago
Last Modified Mar 24, 2026 3mo ago

Description

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
9.5
Exploitability
Impact
Vector string
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
80.5% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-121

Affected Products 2

VendorProductVersionRange
openwrtopenwrt* <24.10.6
openwrtopenwrt*≥25.12.0  –  <25.12.1

References 3

  • github.com https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v24.10.6
    Release Notes
  • github.com https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v25.12.1
    Release Notes
  • github.com https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/security/advisories/GHSA-mpgh-v658-jqv5
    Vendor Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.