CVE-2026-88835CWE-125

CVE-2026-88835

Medium · published September 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

BusyBox dpkg read_package_field() steps past a NUL terminator on malformed .deb packages, causing an out-of-bounds heap read.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00119 · 1.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-09-23T22:17Z
References (3)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72111 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88835 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531349 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 SEP 03:28Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 23 SEP 17:45Z
    Busybox: busybox: dpkg read_package_field() steps past nul terminator, causing out-of-bounds read on malformed .deb packages
    cvelistv5