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    CVE-2021-42374

    An out-of-bounds heap read in Busybox's unlzma applet leads to information leak and denial of service when crafted LZMA-compressed input is decompressed. This can be triggered by any applet/format that

    Published:Nov 9, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 3, 2025
    EPS:Nov 15, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00071
    CVSS Score:5.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Busybox
    Product
    Busybox
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Cloud Backup
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H300e
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H300e Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H300s
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H300s Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H410s
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H410s Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H500e
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H500e Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H500s
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H500s Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H700e
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H700e Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H700s
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    H700s Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Management Node
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Solidfire

    Exploits

    https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-540 Overread Buffers

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2026-38755 (CVSS 2.9) — A heap overflow in the evalcommand() function (shell/ash.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Den…
    CVE-2026-38753 (CVSS 4.9) — A use-after-free in the awk_sub() function (editors/awk.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Deni…
    CVE-2026-38754 (CVSS 5.1) — A heap overflow in the ifsbreakup() function (shell/ash.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Deni…
    CVE-2026-38752 (CVSS 2.9) — A stack overflow in the evaluate() function (editors/awk.c) of BusyBox commit 371fe9 allows attackers to cause…
    CVE-2025-60876 (CVSS 6.5) — BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control bytes in the HTTP request-target…
    CVE-2025-12221 (CVSS 2.1) — Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1…
    CVE-2025-12220 (CVSS 10) — Busybox 1.31.1 - Multiple Known Vulnerabilities.This issue affects BLU-IC2: through 1.19.5; BLU-IC4: through 1…
    CVE-2024-58251 (CVSS 2.5) — In netstat in BusyBox through 1.37.0, local users can launch of network application with an argv[0] containing…
    CVE-2025-46394 (CVSS 3.2) — In tar in BusyBox through 1.37.0, a TAR archive can have filenames hidden from a listing through the use of te…

    References

    https://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog
    https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/
    https://claroty.com/team82/research/unboxing-busybox-14-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-jfrog
    https://jfrog.com/blog/unboxing-busybox-14-new-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-claroty-and-jfrog/
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00012.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6T2TURBYYJGBMQTTN2DSOAIQGP7WCPGV/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UQXGOGWBIYWOIVXJVRKHZR34UMEHQBXS/
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211223-0002/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High