CVE-2023-42364

medium

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in BusyBox v.1.36.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c evaluate function.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00012.html

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15868

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-27

Updated: 2025-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H