CVE-2026-26157
Is CVE-2026-26157 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.
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public sources
High CVSS base score, but low real-world exploitation probability (EPSS). Likely less urgent than the score implies.
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CISA Vulnrichment · assessed
CISA decision, by how critical the affected system is to you:
- low impact → Track
- medium impact → Track
- high impact → Track*
Track: normal patch cycle · Track*: watch closely · Attend: patch sooner · Act: patch now. About SSVC ↗
public exploits
links to sources — we don’t host codeA working exploit is publicly available from a maintained source. Treat this as higher urgency and verify your exposure.
baseline read
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Real, but low real-world risk
A genuine vulnerability on paper, but EPSS shows little real-world exploitation — the base score may overstate urgency. This is not the same as a false positive.
Based on CVSS · FIRST EPSS
Confirm or dispute →CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
A flaw was found in BusyBox. Incomplete path sanitization in its archive extraction utilities allows an attacker to craft malicious archives that when extracted, and under specific conditions, may write to files outside the intended directory. This can lead to arbitrary file overwrite, potentially enabling code execution through the modification of sensitive system files.
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- CISA SSVC assessment · exploitation: none
- Published by NVD
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A working public exploit is published for this, so the barrier to attack is low. It needs local access, so it reads more as a privilege-escalation or post-access risk than a remote one. Patch this on priority and confirm the fix holds.
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