CVE-2026-88839

6.7 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.7). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BusyBox passwd/group tokenize() references a stale endpoint pointer after trimming, causing an out-of-bounds write of heap pointers.

Severity

6.7 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2026-09-23
Modified: 2026-09-25
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19