Vulnerability

CVE-2026-88837

Descriptive record received from OpenCTI and minimised for consultation in the Intel portal.

Sharing: PUBLIC-OSINT
Confidence: 100
Source: The CVE Program
Updated: 26/09/2026 05:20

Description

BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.

STIX identifiervulnerability--8074ee0b-f717-5a40-a0a1-cfda0ca78bb1

First observation-

Last observation-

Known relationships8

Aliases and classifications

Authentication Bypass by Primary WeaknessCWE-305

Minimised technical details

No raw data

cisa kev: False
cvss score: 6.5
cvss vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
cvss severity: MEDIUM

Provenance

Public references

RHSA-2026:72111
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72111
RHBZ#2531351
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
vdb-entry
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88837

EudorIA correlation

Intel catalogue

The vulnerability is also available in the EudorIA editorial catalogue.

Open EudorIA analysis

Presence in OpenCTI describes an intelligence correlation and does not, by itself, constitute evidence of compromise, legal attribution or operational guidance applicable without context verification.