CVE-2022-28391

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Apr 3, 2022
Updated: Jun 9, 2025
Reserved: Apr 3, 2022

Description

BusyBox through 1.35.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code if netstat is used to print a DNS PTR record's value to a VT compatible terminal. Alternatively, the attacker could choose to change the terminal's colors.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13661
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/busybox/0001-libbb-sockaddr2str-ensure-only-printable-characters-.patch
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/plain/main/busybox/0002-nslookup-sanitize-all-printed-strings-with-printable.patch

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