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CVE-2025-46394
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Low3.2EPSS 0.18%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.2.
Weakness
Affected products
References (6)
- https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=16018 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.busybox.net/downloads/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.busybox.net (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/5 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/24/3 (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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