CVE-2026-76014

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.

Published 19 Aug 2026, 03:16 UTC Last modified 19 Aug 2026, 03:16 UTC

1.9

CVSS 4.0 LOW base score

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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack profile

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Attack vector Local

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Scope Not assessed

Confidentiality Not assessed

Integrity Not assessed

Availability Not assessed

Affected products

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NVD has not published structured affected-product data for this record.

Weakness classification

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CWECWE-404 CWECWE-476

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 02 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 03 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 04 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 05 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 06 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com 07 Technical reference cna@vuldb.com