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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-02-11T20:27:06.196Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T14:00:28.614Z

Source :

redhat
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-26157 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Red Hat
  • Enterprise Linux
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux
  • Hummingbird
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-26157.

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26157 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439039 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/archival?id=3fb6b31c716669e12f75a2accd31bb7685b1a1cb cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26157 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26157 cve-icon
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