CVE-2026-56116

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-23. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-38496 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send Router Advertisements containing Route Information options with a lifetime of zero, triggering unfreed allocations in routeinfo_findalloc() that cause linear memory exhaustion and eventual daemon crash.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
29
EG Risk 29/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
21st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 23, 2026

Last Modified

October 25, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 23, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
Web page

dhcpcd Memory Leak DoS via IPv6 Router Advertisement Handling | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dhcpcd-memory-leak-dos-via-ipv6-router-advertisement-handling
GitHub commit

commit 708b4a56bae0 (NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd)

Fix landed in NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd commit 708b4a56bae0 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/commit/708b4a56bae080a5b18c2e0c4c6fbe103131a2b0

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56116(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dhcpcd—
  • 10.0.7 up to 10.5.2-r0: fixed in 10.5.2-r0
—
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dhcpcd—
  • 10.0.7 up to 10.5.2-r0: fixed in 10.5.2-r0
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dhcpcd1:10.1.0-11, 1:10.1.0-11+deb13u1, 1:10.1.0-11+deb13u2
  • every version up to 1:10.1.0-11+deb13u3: fixed in 1:10.1.0-11+deb13u3
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
dhcpcd1:10.1.0-11 ... 1:10.3.2-4~bpo13+1 (37 versions)
  • every version up to 1:10.3.2-4: fixed in 1:10.3.2-4
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 275 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 175 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  2. 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 23:35 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 23:35 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 23:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  6. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  7. 2026-10-25 14:18 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-22 21:12 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-22 21:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  12. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  17. 2026-10-18 03:29 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-11 16:53 UTCEG score recompute
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  3. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  6. 2026-10-08 18:31 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-08 18:31 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-08 18:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  9. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  24. 2026-09-23 12:01 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-23 12:01 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-23 12:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  27. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
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  30. 2026-09-18 10:24 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-18 10:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  32. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
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  38. 2026-09-13 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-13 12:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  40. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
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  50. 2026-08-30 20:26 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-08-30 20:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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  59. 2026-08-24 13:54 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-24 13:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  61. 2026-08-23 13:28 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-08-23 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  63. 2026-08-22 13:49 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-22 13:49 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-08-22 13:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  66. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
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  68. 2026-08-21 07:19 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-08-21 07:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
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  71. 2026-08-20 07:46 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-20 07:46 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-08-20 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-g36w-q35r-qvg3 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  74. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 8th percentile
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-56116?
CVE-2026-56116 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 23, 2026. dhcpcd through 10.3.2, fixed in commit 708b4a5, contains a memory leak vulnerability in the IPv6 Router Advertisement route information handling that allows an unauthenticated same-link attacker to cause denial of service by sending crafted Router Advertisements. Attackers can repeatedly send…
When was CVE-2026-56116 made public?
CVE-2026-56116 was made public on June 22, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 23, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 25, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-56116 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-56116 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (21st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-56116?
CVE-2026-56116 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-56116?
A fix for CVE-2026-56116 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-56116 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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