CVE-2021-42386
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V3.1EPSS Score
v2025.03.14There is a 0.2% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the nvalloc function
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 24, 2022, Modified: April 23, 2025