CVE-2026-88837

medium

Description

BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531351

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88837

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00225