CVE-2021-42375
An incorrect handling of a special element in Busybox's ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mistaking specific characters for reserved characters. This may be used for DoS under rare conditions of filtered command input.
Scoring
- CVSS base score
- 0
- EPSS probability
- 0.06%
- CWE
- CWE-159
- Published
- 2021-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- busybox busybox
Weakness type
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