What the vulnerability does

01Description

An attacker-controlled pointer free in Busybox's hush applet leads to denial of service and possible code execution when processing a crafted shell command, due to the shell mishandling the &&& string. This may be used for remote code execution under rare conditions of filtered command input.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 15, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated