CVE-2018-1000517: Busybox

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 32.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can result in heap buffer overflow. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: before 1.29.0 (fixed in 1.29.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2018-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.