CVE-2023-42364: Busybox

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

A use-after-free vulnerability in BusyBox v.1.36.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted awk pattern in the awk.c evaluate function.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: version 1.36.1 only

Published 2023-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.