CVE-2026-30872

CRITICAL

OpenWrt Project has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability via IPv6 reverse DNS lookup

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-121
Status published
Products (2)
openwrt/openwrt < 24.10.6 (2 CPE variants)
openwrt/openwrt >= 25.12.0-rc1, < 25.12.1
Published Mar 19, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 20, 2026