CVE-2021-42375: Busybox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: version 1.33.1 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 33 only; version 34 only
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified

Published 2021-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.