CVE-2026-10805

MEDIUM6.7

Networkmanager: networkmanager: local privilege escalation via malformed mud urls in dhclient backend

Published Jun 4, 2026

Modified 2 days ago

Details

A flaw was found in NetworkManager. This local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in NetworkManager's dhclient backend when processing malformed Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) URLs. A local user can exploit this flaw to escalate privileges by triggering a script via a crafted MUD URL, provided an administrator has explicitly configured NetworkManager to use dhclient. This issue does not affect default configurations of NetworkManager.

References

WEB

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10805

WEB

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484613

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10805

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

6.7

Exploitability

Attack Vector