# BusyBox vulnerabilities

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/busybox  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Updated: 13 November 2026, 03:07 UTC. Rebuilt every hour.  
Data: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/busybox.json  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 30 vulnerabilities in BusyBox: 11 in the last 7 days and 22 in the last 90 days, 0 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. The most recent, CVE-2026-124746, was published on 11 November 2026. 5 vulnerabilities in the last four weeks, down 17% on the four before (6).

## Counts

- Last 7 days: 11
- Last 30 days: 13
- Last 90 days: 22
- All time: 30 (0 critical, 0 exploited in the wild)

## About BusyBox

BusyBox is a software suite providing Unix utilities in a single statically-linked executable optimized for small systems.

## Latest BusyBox vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-124746: BusyBox integer overflow in volume_id](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124746-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-an-integer-overflow-occurs-in-the) (medium, CVSS 5.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124745: BusyBox tar hardlink resolution path traversal](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124745-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-extracting-an-archive-the-tar) (medium, CVSS 6.3, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124744: BusyBox cpio hardlink path traversal vulnerability](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124744-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-extracting-files-using-the-cpio) (medium, CVSS 6.3, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124743: BusyBox divide-by-zero in HFS+ filesystem parsing](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124743-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-processing-filesystem-metadata) (medium, CVSS 5.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124742: BusyBox divide-by-zero in volume identification FAT parser](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124742-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-the-volume-identification-component) (medium, CVSS 5.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124740: BusyBox udhcpc6 use-after-free in DHCPv6 client](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124740-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-s-udhcpc6-dhcpv6-client-a-malicious) (medium, CVSS 4.3, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124738: BusyBox httpd authentication bypass via pre-compressed files](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124738-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-the-http-daemon-httpd-has-pre) (medium, CVSS 5.3, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124741: BusyBox udhcpc6 stack buffer overflow in DHCPv6 options](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124741-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-the-udhcpc6-dhcpv6-client-does-not) (high, CVSS 7.6, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124739: BusyBox httpd stack buffer overflow in subdirectory config](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124739-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-the-httpd-web-server-processes) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124737: BusyBox heap buffer overflow in TFTP client](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124737-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-the-tftp-trivial-file-transfer) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124747: BusyBox wget heap buffer overflow in FTP resume](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124747-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-resuming-a-download-over-file) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 10 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-92205: BusyBox libarchive symlink directory traversal arbitrary file creation](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-92205-busybox-libarchive-symlink-directory-traversal-arbitrary-file) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 21 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-90954: BusyBox dpkg-deb path traversal in archive extraction](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-90954-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-s-dpkg-deb-archive-extraction-the-ar) (high, CVSS 7.8, published 14 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88838: BusyBox mount security restriction bypass in mount utility](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88838-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-s-mount-utility-a-non-root-user-can) (medium, CVSS 5.5, published 13 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88833: BusyBox udhcpc integer underflow in DHCP packet processing](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88833-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-s-udhcpc-dhcp-client-when-processing) (medium, CVSS 6.5, published 13 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88836: BusyBox TLS missing Finished verify_data checking](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88836-rejected-reason-red-hat-product-security-determined-this-is-not-a) (info, published 13 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-108119: BusyBox tar applet path traversal in deferred link creation](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-108119-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-the-tar-applet-s-deferred-link) (medium, CVSS 6.3, published 9 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88840: BusyBox TLS out-of-bounds read in ClientHello parsing](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88840-busybox-tls-get-client-hello-reads-past-the-end-of-the-input) (medium, CVSS 5.3, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88839: BusyBox passwd/group tokenize() heap pointer out-of-bounds write](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88839-busybox-passwd-group-tokenize-references-a-stale-endpoint-pointer) (medium, CVSS 6.7, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88835: BusyBox dpkg read_package_field() out-of-bounds heap read](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88835-busybox-dpkg-read-package-field-steps-past-a-nul-terminator-on) (medium, CVSS 6.1, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88832: BusyBox romfs volume ID parsing heap buffer overflow](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88832-busybox-romfs-volume-id-parsing-uses-unbounded-strlen-on-attacker) (high, CVSS 7.3, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88830: BusyBox TLS heap buffer overflow in Montgomery reduction](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88830-a-unit-confusion-in-busybox-tls-montgomery-reduction-buffer) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-38755: BusyBox ash heap overflow in evalcommand function](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-38755-busybox-ash-heap-overflow-in-evalcommand-function) (info, CVSS 0, published 15 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-38754: BusyBox ash heap overflow in ifsbreakup](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-38754-busybox-ash-heap-overflow-in-ifsbreakup) (info, CVSS 0, published 15 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-38752: BusyBox stack overflow in AWK evaluate function](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-38752-busybox-stack-overflow-in-awk-evaluate-function) (info, published 15 Jul 2026)

## Most severe BusyBox vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-29004: BusyBox heap buffer overflow in udhcpc6 DNS_SERVERS handler](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-29004-busybox-heap-buffer-overflow-in-udhcpc6-dns-servers-handler) (high, CVSS 8.1, published 4 May 2026)
- [CVE-2026-90954: BusyBox dpkg-deb path traversal in archive extraction](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-90954-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-s-dpkg-deb-archive-extraction-the-ar) (high, CVSS 7.8, published 14 Oct 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124741: BusyBox udhcpc6 stack buffer overflow in DHCPv6 options](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124741-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-the-udhcpc6-dhcpv6-client-does-not) (high, CVSS 7.6, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88830: BusyBox TLS heap buffer overflow in Montgomery reduction](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88830-a-unit-confusion-in-busybox-tls-montgomery-reduction-buffer) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124739: BusyBox httpd stack buffer overflow in subdirectory config](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124739-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-the-httpd-web-server-processes) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124737: BusyBox heap buffer overflow in TFTP client](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124737-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-the-tftp-trivial-file-transfer) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 11 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-124747: BusyBox wget heap buffer overflow in FTP resume](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-124747-a-flaw-was-found-in-busybox-when-resuming-a-download-over-file) (high, CVSS 7.5, published 10 Nov 2026)
- [CVE-2026-88832: BusyBox romfs volume ID parsing heap buffer overflow](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-88832-busybox-romfs-volume-id-parsing-uses-unbounded-strlen-on-attacker) (high, CVSS 7.3, published 23 Sep 2026)
- [CVE-2026-26157: BusyBox path traversal in archive extraction utilities](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-26157-busybox-path-traversal-in-archive-extraction-utilities) (high, CVSS 7, published 11 Feb 2026)
- [CVE-2026-26158: BusyBox arbitrary file modification via unvalidated tar link entries](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-26158-busybox-arbitrary-file-modification-via-unvalidated-tar-link) (high, CVSS 7, published 11 Feb 2026)

## Vulnerabilities per week

5 vulnerabilities in the last four weeks, down 17% on the four before (6).

| Week of | Vulns | Critical | Exploited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 Nov 2026 | 11 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources

NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories. Rebuilt every hour. Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "BusyBox vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/busybox, 13 November 2026.
