Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2011-2716

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2716 describes a command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client (udhcpc) component of BusyBox versions prior to 1.20.0, affecting various BusyBox-based products. Remote DHCP servers can exploit this by injecting shell metacharacters into specific hostname-related options, leading to arbitrary command execution on the affected device. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a network-adjacent attack vector and high complexity, but if successful, it allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0.4.376_3169CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:t-mobile:tm-ac1900:3.0.0.4.376_3169:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.19.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.60.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:0.60.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.0.0:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.2
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0180 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 1,749 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: busybox-1:1.2.0-13.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: busybox-1:1.15.1-15.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2716Low

busybox: udhcpc insufficient checking of DHCP options

Mar 18, 2011

References

downloads.avaya.com / css/P8/documents/100158840
packetstormsecurity.com / files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0810.html
bugs.busybox.net / show_bug.cgi
Patch
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20
secunia.com / advisories/45363
Vendor Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
support.t-mobile.com / docs/DOC-21994
busybox.net / news.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/48879