CVE-2026-38752

FAUCET Score

A stack overflow in the evaluate() function (editors/awk.c) of BusyBox commit 371fe9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted AWK script.

First published: Jul 15, 2026Last modified: Jul 20, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		2024-07-13CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:2024-07-13:::::::*
		>= 1.00, <= 1.38.0CPE match	cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

2.9LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

1.4

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.21%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

11.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 1st percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (1)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: azl3 busybox 1.36.1-24 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 1.36.1-25

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2026-Jul/CVE-2026-38752Low

A stack overflow in the evaluate() function (editors/awk.c) of BusyBox commit 371fe9 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted AWK script.

Jul 14, 2026

References

busybox.net

lists.busybox.net / pipermail/busybox/2026-June/092351.html

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