CVE-2026-26157

🔴 HIGH

A flaw was found in BusyBox. Incomplete path sanitization in its archive extraction utilities allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that when extracted, and under specific conditions, may wri...

Published
Feb 11, 2026
Last Modified
Feb 12, 2026
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A flaw was found in BusyBox. Incomplete path sanitization in its archive extraction utilities allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that when extracted, and under specific conditions, may write to files outside the intended directory. This can lead to arbitrary file overwrite, potentially enabling code execution through the modification of sensitive system files.

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 7.0
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 2.0 7.0

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Source
secalert@redhat.com
State
Awaiting analysis

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