CVE-2018-1111: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 97.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DHCP packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 28, and earlier are vulnerable to a command injection flaw in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP client. A malicious DHCP server, or an attacker on the local network able to spoof DHCP responses, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration using the DHCP protocol.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 26 only; version 27 only; version 28 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; version 6.6 only; version 6.7 only; version 7.0 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: version 4.0 only; version 4.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.