CVE-2026-88838

medium

Description

A flaw was found in BusyBox's mount utility. A non-root user can bypass mount security restrictions set in /etc/fstab by specifying clearing-mask options on the command line. These options pass the non-root flag filter and are merged with fstab options as strings; when the combined options are re-parsed, clearing options can override nosuid, nodev, and noexec protections the administrator intended to enforce.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-98898

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531352

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88838

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium