An incorrect handling of a special element in Busybox's ash applet leads to denial of service when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mistaking specific characters for reserved characters. This may be used for DoS under rare conditions of filtered command input.
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Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:24:13.160Z

Reserved: 2021-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-42375

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:30:38.275Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-15T21:15:07.593

Modified: 2025-04-23T20:15:33.763

Link: CVE-2021-42375

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-11-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-42375 - Bugzilla