CVE-2025-60876 — Improper Access Control in Busybox

CWE-284 — Improper Access ControlCWE-93 — CRLF Injection6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
BusyboxDebian BusyboxMsrc Azl3 Busybox 1.36.1-18 ON Azure Linux 3.0+7 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 10
Latest updateNov 11

Description

BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control bytes in the HTTP request-target (path/query), allowing the request line to be split and attacker-controlled headers to be injected. To preserve the HTTP/1.1 request-line shape METHOD SP request-target SP HTTP/1.1, a raw space (0x20) in the request-target must also be rejected (clients should use %20).

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.5

Affected Packages11 packages

▶debiandebian/busybox< busybox 1:1.37.0-8 (forky)
▶Debianbusybox/busybox< 1:1.37.0-8
▶NVDbusybox/busybox1.37.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2025-60876: BusyBox wget thru 1↗2025-11-10
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GHSA
GHSA-48hw-cv6f-mcpj: BusyBox wget thru 1↗2025-11-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Microsoft
BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control bytes in the HTTP request-target (path/query), allowing the request line to be split and attacker-controlled headers to be↗2025-11-11
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Red Hat
busybox: BusyBox wget: HTTP request-target allows header injection↗2025-11-10
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Debian
CVE-2025-60876: busybox - BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control by...↗2025
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