CVE-2026-30872CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p80.4%
CVE-2026-30872CVE-2026-30872
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 2.22% probability of exploitation · percentile 80.4% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2026-03-19 |
| Last modified | 2026-03-24 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Stack-based Buffer Overflowcwe-121 | 0% | live |
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