CVE 7.5 HIGH

Kea crash upon interaction between specific client options and subnet selection_CVE-2025-40779

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

If a DHCPv4 client sends a request with some specific options, and Kea fails to find an appropriate subnet for the client, the `kea-dhcp4` process will abort with an assertion failure. This happens only if the client request is unicast directly to Kea; broadcast messages do not cause the problem.
This issue affects Kea versions 2.7.1 through 2.7.9, 3.0.0, and 3.1.0.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-40779
Source isc
Published Aug 27, 2025 at 20:23

Affected Product

Vendor ISC
Product Kea
Version 2.7.1
Affected Versions ISC Kea 2.7.1
ISC Kea 3.0.0
ISC Kea 3.1.0

CWE Classification

References

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