CVE-2026-88835

6.1 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.1). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BusyBox dpkg read_package_field() steps past a NUL terminator on malformed .deb packages, causing an out-of-bounds heap read.

Severity

6.1 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2026-09-23
Modified: 2026-09-25
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19