CVE-2026-58096

8.8 highEPSS 0.6%

High (8.8) in freebsd freebsd. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LcpDecodeConfig() did not validate the length of received endpoint discriminator options against the minimum required by RFC 1717. Undersized options would trigger an out-of-bounds write. A malicious PPP peer can exploit CVE-2026-58095 and CVE-2026-58096 to crash ppp(8) or potentially execute arbitrary code as root.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-130, CWE-787
Published: 2026-08-26
Modified: 2026-09-10
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freebsd:freebsd

References

https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:60.ppp.asc

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