CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-88837
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-09-25
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-305
Description
BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-305 Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72111 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88837 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531351 bugzilla.redhat.com