Red Hat Security Advisory: NetworkManager security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
CVE-2026-10805 — NetworkManager: NetworkManager: Local privilege escalation via malformed MUD URLs in dhclient backend
🎯 Affected products200
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-adsl-debuginfo-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-bluetooth-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-bluetooth-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-bluetooth-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
- NetworkManager-bluetooth-1:1.54.3-5.el9_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: To prevent exploitation, ensure NetworkManager is not configured to use the `dhclient` backend. The default configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not enable `dhclient`. If a custom configuration file, such as `/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-dhcp.conf`, contains `[main] dhcp=dhclient`, remove or comment out this line. After modifying the configuration, restart the NetworkManager service: `sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager` Warning: Restarting the NetworkManager service will temporarily disrupt network connectivity.