Echo: busybox: security update to 1:1.38.0-1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 457167

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control bytes in the HTTP request-
target (path/query), allowing the request line to be split and attacker-controlled headers to be injected.
To preserve the HTTP/1.1 request-line shape METHOD SP request-target SP HTTP/1.1, a raw space (0x20) in
the request-target must also be rejected (clients should use %20). (CVE-2025-60876)

Solution

Update the busybox library and its related packages to version 1:1.38.0-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-60876

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 457167

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-60876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-60876