CVE-2026-38752: Busybox

Low severity, CVSS 2.9. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack overflow in the evaluate() function (editors/awk.c) of BusyBox commit 371fe9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted AWK script.

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: version 2024-07-13 only

Published 2026-07-15. Last modified 2026-07-20.