CVE-2026-10773

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.45.4—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.4 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3% (16th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Elevated
5.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 5.4Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

The DHCPv4 client helper net_dhcpv4_msg_type_name() in subsys/net/lib/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.c indexes a static 8-element const char * name table after a faulty bounds check. The guard used msg_type <= sizeof(name) instead of msg_type <= ARRAY_SIZE(name); sizeof returns the byte size of the pointer array (32 on 32-bit, 64 on 64-bit targets) rather than the element count of 8, so message-type values from 9 up to that byte size pass the check and cause name[msg_type - 1] to read past the end of the array.

The msg_type value originates from the DHCP MESSAGE TYPE option, which is read as an unchecked raw byte from a received packet (net_pkt_read_u8) and passed unmodified into the lookup. A DHCP server, or any host able to inject a spoofed DHCP reply onto the client's link, can therefore drive the index out of bounds. The out-of-range slot yields a garbage const char * that is then dereferenced by a %s log conversion.

The lookup is reached only from a debug log statement (NET_DBG / LOG_DBG), so the out-of-bounds read is triggerable only when the DHCPv4 log module is built at DEBUG level (CONFIG_NET_DHCPV4_LOG_LEVEL_DBG), which is not the default configuration. When that condition holds, the result is an out-of-bounds read and a wild-pointer dereference: most likely a crash of the DHCP client (denial of service) and potentially disclosure of an adjacent pointer's contents through the log output. The fix replaces sizeof with ARRAY_SIZE, restoring the correct 1..8 acceptance window.

CVSS v3
5.4
EG Score
5.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity54% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
17th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it and apply that within your standard update timelines; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 1, 2026

Last Modified

September 1, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 1, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet. Sources: github_commit, github.
githubMentions a patch (unverified)🟡 PoC Available

DHCPv4: out-of-bounds read in net_dhcpv4_msg_type_name() via sizeof(name) byte-vs-element confusion · Advisory · zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · GitHub

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-r5hq-xq42-wcfq
github_commit

commit 73c8a7df4f00 (zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr)

Fix landed in zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr commit 73c8a7df4f00 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commit/73c8a7df4f00088fc04ee5ab71bcabf47fcd3db7

Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 41× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 108 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-10-06 23:49 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-10-05 19:53 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-04 06:26 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-02 10:31 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-01 02:43 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-29 06:47 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-28 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-09-27 18:23 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-25 09:20 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-24 08:42 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-23 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-23 08:05 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-22 07:18 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescore
Show 75 more
  1. 2026-09-20 11:08 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-19 08:01 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-18 06:47 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-17 06:11 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-16 05:24 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-14 10:13 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-13 09:24 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-12 08:47 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-11 08:10 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-09 06:57 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-09-07 19:19 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-06 12:04 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-05 11:26 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-04 10:25 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-09-03 09:04 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-09-02 14:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-09-02 00:59 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  30. 2026-09-01 04:39 UTCEPSS rescore
  31. 2026-09-01 00:23 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-08-31 23:25 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-30 22:50 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  35. 2026-08-30 01:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  36. 2026-08-29 22:14 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-08-28 21:40 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-08-27 14:24 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-08-27 08:49 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-08-26 05:53 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-08-25 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-08-25 05:16 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-08-23 04:04 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  45. 2026-08-22 03:27 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-08-21 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  47. 2026-08-21 02:50 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-08-20 02:13 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-08-19 01:36 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  53. 2026-08-18 01:00 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-17 00:12 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  57. 2026-08-15 23:36 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  59. 2026-08-13 22:23 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-08-12 21:47 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  63. 2026-08-11 21:11 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  65. 2026-08-10 23:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-08-09 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  68. 2026-08-08 19:23 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
  70. 2026-08-07 18:47 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-06 15:50 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  73. 2026-08-05 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  75. 2026-08-04 19:55 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-10773?
CVE-2026-10773 is a medium vulnerability published on August 1, 2026. The DHCPv4 client helper netdhcpv4msgtypename() in subsys/net/lib/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.c indexes a static 8-element const char * name table after a faulty bounds check. The guard used msgtype <= sizeof(name) instead of msgtype <= ARRAYSIZE(name); sizeof returns the byte size of the pointer array (32 on…
When was CVE-2026-10773 disclosed?
CVE-2026-10773 was first published on August 1, 2026, with the most recent update on September 1, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-10773 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-10773 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (17th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-10773?
CVE-2026-10773 has a CVSS base score of 5.4 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-10773?
A fix for CVE-2026-10773 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

Dependency Blast Radius

Explore the affected products and dependency analysis for CVE-2026-10773

Explore →

Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2026-10773?

EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.