RHSA-2026:72111
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-09-25 19:35 - Updated: 2026-09-25 22:28BusyBox httpd IP deny rules with invalid CIDR prefix lengths fail open, leaving a parsed IP with a zeroed mask so the rule matches no clients.
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@aarch64 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@src | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@x86_64 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-petitboot-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@aarch64 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-petitboot-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@x86_64 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-shared-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@aarch64 | — |
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| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Hardened Images:busybox-shared-0:1.37.0-9.1.hum1@x86_64 | — |
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BusyBox romfs volume ID parsing uses unbounded strlen on attacker-controlled metadata, causing a heap buffer overflow when processing crafted filesystem images.
BusyBox dpkg read_package_field() steps past a NUL terminator on malformed .deb packages, causing an out-of-bounds heap read.
BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.
BusyBox passwd/group tokenize() references a stale endpoint pointer after trimming, causing an out-of-bounds write of heap pointers.
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.