Busybox vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.
Busybox has 41 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Busybox, with 41. If you run Busybox software, patch the exploited flaws first.
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Busybox leads with 41 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.
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None of Busybox's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Busybox flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 33%CVE-2018-1000517Critical
BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can result in heap buffer overflow.
- 27%CVE-2016-2148Critical
Heap-based buffer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving OPTION_6RD parsing.
- 9.0%CVE-2016-6301High
The recv_and_process_client_pkt function in networking/ntpd.c in busybox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged NTP packet, which triggers a communication loop.
- 7.8%CVE-2016-2147High
Integer overflow in the DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed RFC1035-encoded domain name, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.
- 7.7%CVE-2018-20679High
An issue was discovered in BusyBox before 1.30.0.
- 7.0%CVE-2011-5325High
Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1.22.0 v5 allows remote attackers to point to files outside the current working directory via a symlink.
- 6.1%CVE-2017-16544High
In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in executing...
- 4.7%CVE-2019-5747High
An issue was discovered in BusyBox through 1.30.0.
- 3.6%CVE-2021-42377Critical
An attacker-controlled pointer free in Busybox's hush applet leads to denial of service and possible code execution when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mishandling the &&& string.
- 3.5%CVE-2022-28391High
BusyBox through 1.35.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code if netstat is used to print a DNS PTR record's value to a VT compatible terminal.
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BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can result in heap buffer overflow. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e.
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Our catalogue lists 41 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 146 versions from Busybox.
None of Busybox's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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