# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40779"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-27T20:23:29.489Z"
updatedAt: "2025-11-04T21:10:15.428Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40779"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40779.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40779"
title: "Kea crash upon interaction between specific client options and subnet selection"
summary: "If a DHCPv4 client sends a request with some specific options, and Kea fails to find an appropriate subnet for the client, the `kea-dhcp4` process will abort with an assertion failure.  This happens only if the client request is unicast directly to Kea; broadcast messages do not cause the problem.\nThis issue affects Kea versions 2.7.1 through 2.7.9, 3.0.0, and 3.1.0."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.7.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2.7.9"},{"version":"3.0.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"3.1.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"2.6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2.6.4"}],"vendor":"ISC","product":"Kea","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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