Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0997

RCE

Title: Isc Dhcp RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-0997.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Apr 08, 2011
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
73.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0997: dhclient in ISC DHCP 3.0.x through 4.2.x before 4.2.1-P1, 3.1-ESV before 3.1-ESV-R1, and 4.1-ESV before 4.1-ESV-R2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from a DHCP message, as demonstrated by a hostname that is provided to dhclient-script.

Impacted Vendors

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Reference Links

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057888.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058279.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/44037 http://secunia.com/advisories/44048 http://secunia.com/advisories/44089 http://secunia.com/advisories/44090 http://secunia.com/advisories/44103 http://secunia.com/advisories/44127 http://secunia.com/advisories/44180 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1025300 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593345 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2216 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2217 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107886 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:073 http://www.osvdb.org/71493 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0840.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47176 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0879 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0886 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0909 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0915 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0926 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0965 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1000 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689832 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66580 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12812 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37623/ https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057888.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058279.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/44037 http://secunia.com/advisories/44048 http://secunia.com/advisories/44089 http://secunia.com/advisories/44090 http://secunia.com/advisories/44103 http://secunia.com/advisories/44127 http://secunia.com/advisories/44180 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-06.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1025300 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.593345 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2216 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2217 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/107886 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:073 http://www.osvdb.org/71493 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0428.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0840.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47176 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1108-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0879 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0886 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0909 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0915 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0926 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0965 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1000 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689832 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66580 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12812 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37623/ https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/advisories/cve-2011-0997
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0997 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.