CVE-2026-88837

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.

Severity

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 19% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-305
Published: 2026-09-23
Modified: 2026-09-25
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19