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CVE-2025-46394

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-451

Description

In tar in BusyBox through 1.37.0, a TAR archive can have filenames hidden from a listing through the use of terminal escape sequences.

Affected products

• busybox: through 1.37.0

References

• https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=16018
• https://www.busybox.net
• https://www.busybox.net/downloads/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/24/3
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html

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