High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 11, 2026· Updated Jun 2, 2026
CVE-2026-26157
CVE-2026-26157
Description
A flaw was found in BusyBox. Incomplete path sanitization in its archive extraction utilities allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that when extracted, and under specific conditions, may write to files outside the intended directory. This can lead to arbitrary file overwrite, potentially enabling code execution through the modification of sensitive system files.
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Affected products
22- osv-coords21 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/busyboxpkg:apk/wolfi/busyboxpkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/busybox-links&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP6-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/busybox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5
< 1.37.0-r58+ 20 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-r58
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-r58
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-10.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.7.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150700.18.15.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-10.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-150400.3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-150500.10.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.37.0-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.35.0-10.3.1
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