CVE-2021-42383

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A use-after-free in Busybox's awk applet leads to denial of service and possibly code execution when processing a crafted awk pattern in the evaluate function

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42383.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-42383

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.35.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.35.0-1
arch archfixed1.34.1-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.