CVE-2021-42378 (GCVE-0-2021-42378)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-15 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 20:34
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the getvar_i function
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
busybox busybox Version: unspecified   < 1.34.0
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