CVE-2025-32802: ISC Kea

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kea configuration and API directives can be used to overwrite arbitrary files, subject to permissions granted to Kea. Many common configurations run Kea as root, leave the API entry points unsecured by default, and/or place the control sockets in insecure paths. This issue affects Kea versions 2.4.0 through 2.4.1, 2.6.0 through 2.6.2, and 2.7.0 through 2.7.8.

Affected products

  • ISC Kea: from 2.4.0, up to and including 2.4.1; from 2.6.0, up to and including 2.6.2; from 2.7.0, up to and including 2.7.8

Published 2025-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.