A vulnerability has been found in BusyBox up to 1.30.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file networking/wget.c of the component FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT Handler. Such manipulation of the argument -T leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 83a40bf7a93c8ac093d33ab452222dd5b9eb57ff. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Busybox
  • Busybox

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References
Link Providers
https://gist.github.com/wyxstarry/5c199ec824928c5ae5816aaecbc6df03 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/mirror/busybox/commit/83a40bf7a93c8ac093d33ab452222dd5b9eb57ff cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/mirror/busybox/issues/124 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-76014 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/submit/878212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/vuln/391923 cve-icon cve-icon
https://vuldb.com/vuln/391923/cti cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability has been found in BusyBox up to 1.30.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file networking/wget.c of the component FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT Handler. Such manipulation of the argument -T leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 83a40bf7a93c8ac093d33ab452222dd5b9eb57ff. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
Title BusyBox FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT wget.c null pointer dereference
First Time appeared Busybox
Busybox busybox
Weaknesses CWE-404
CWE-476
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Busybox
Busybox busybox
References
Metrics cvssV2_0

{'score': 1.7, 'vector': 'AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C'}

cvssV3_0

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2026-08-19T02:45:08.531Z

Updated: 2026-08-25T01:49:44.780Z

Reserved: 2026-08-18T19:02:48.220Z

Link: CVE-2026-76014

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-25T01:49:40.841Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-19T03:16:53.247

Modified: 2026-08-25T03:16:57.350

Link: CVE-2026-76014

cve-icon Redhat

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