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CVE-2021-42377
published 2021-11-15

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…

PriorityP355critical9.8CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
3.38%
87.4th percentile
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. This may be used for remote code execution under rare conditions of filtered command input.

Affected

9 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
busyboxbusybox
busyboxbusybox
busyboxbusybox>= 0 < 1:1.35.0-11:1.35.0-1
busyboxbusybox>= 0 < 1:1.35.0-11:1.35.0-1
busyboxbusybox>= 0 < 1:1.35.0-11:1.35.0-1
busyboxbusybox>= unspecified < 1.34.01.34.0
debianbusybox< busybox 1:1.35.0-1 (bookworm)busybox 1:1.35.0-1 (bookworm)
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian9.8LOW
vendor_redhat9.8CRITICAL
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