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CVE-2026-38752

A stack overflow in the evaluate() function (editors/awk.c) of BusyBox commit 371fe9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted AWK script.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:7894b57274341920401218cd9f14a91ee41bd85e1dc5be96c68250d1dbbda742
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 2 assertions

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.5,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"LOW","baseScore":2.9,"baseSeverity":"LOW","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-121","description":"CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-674","description":"CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"BusyBox","vendor":"BusyBox","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.38.0","status":"affected","version":"1.00","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

2 source assertions
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.5,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"LOW","baseScore":2.9,"baseSeverity":"LOW","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-121","description":"CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-674","description":"CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://busybox.net/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2026-June/092351.html"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a74ca28ed7d93f0352a34d9f83782a38f0d9d5ad779946c8e4091f5948d4dd3d · sha256:d7ef6066f1e3d99a… · /containers/cna/references/1

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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