CVE-2026-88830 (GCVE-0-2026-88830)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-23 17:04 – Updated: 2026-09-24 16:26
VLAI
Title
Busybox: busybox: tls montgomery reduction allocates bytes instead of digits, causing a pre-auth heap buffer overflow
Summary
A unit confusion in BusyBox TLS Montgomery reduction buffer allocation causes a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow when processing a crafted ClientKeyExchange message.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-23 18:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-131 - Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88830 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531344 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images     cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
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Date Public
2026-09-23 16:35
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Shubham Raj (Causal Security) for reporting this issue.
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