CVE-2025-60876

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

BusyBox wget thru 1.3.7 accepted raw CR (0x0D)/LF (0x0A) and other C0 control bytes in the HTTP request-target (path/query), allowing the request line to be split and attacker-controlled headers to be injected. To preserve the HTTP/1.1 request-line shape METHOD SP request-target SP HTTP/1.1, a raw space (0x20) in the request-target must also be rejected (clients should use %20).

Affected products

busybox: through 1.37.0

References

https://gist.github.com/subyumatest/41554af6a72aedaacaec026adc311092
https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/attachments/20250823/ccdc96ef/attachment-0001.htm
https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/attachments/20250828/e7f90492/attachment.htm
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html

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