Busybox vulnerabilities

By year

Bars are flaws published each year; the red part is the share attackers have used.

Latest high and critical flaws

• CVE-2023-39810 An issue in the CPIO command of Busybox v1.33.2 allows attackers to execute a directory traversal.High 7.8 · Aug 28, 2023
• CVE-2022-30065 A use-after-free in Busybox 1.35-x's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the copyvar funcHigh 7.8 · May 18, 2022
• CVE-2022-28391 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.High 8.8 · Apr 3, 2022
• CVE-2021-42386 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the nvalloc functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42385 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42384 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the handle_special funcHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42383 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42382 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the getvar_s functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42381 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the hash_init functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42380 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the clrvar functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42379 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the next_input_file funHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42378 A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the getvar_i functionHigh 7.2 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-42377 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, dueCritical 9.8 · Nov 15, 2021
• CVE-2021-28831 decompress_gunzip.c in BusyBox through 1.32.1 mishandles the error bit on the huft_build result pointer, with a resultant invalid free or segmentation fault, viHigh 7.5 · Mar 19, 2021
• CVE-2019-5747 An issue was discovered in BusyBox through 1.30.0.High 7.5 · Jan 9, 2019
• CVE-2018-20679 An issue was discovered in BusyBox before 1.30.0.High 7.5 · Jan 9, 2019
• CVE-2018-1000517 BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can Critical 9.8 · Jun 26, 2018
• CVE-2018-1000500 Busybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The "busybox wget" applet that can result in arbitrary code execution.High 8.1 · Jun 26, 2018
• CVE-2017-16544 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 directoHigh 8.8 · Nov 20, 2017
• CVE-2011-5325 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 diHigh 7.5 · Aug 7, 2017
• CVE-2016-2148 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_Critical 9.8 · Feb 9, 2017
• CVE-2016-2147 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-encodHigh 7.5 · Feb 9, 2017
• CVE-2016-6301 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) viHigh 7.5 · Dec 9, 2016