CVE-2025-60876

Publication date 10 November 2025

Last updated 16 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
busybox	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needed
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2026-01-15]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2026-02-16, there is no fix from upstream for this issue but Debian has added proposed fixes to 1:1.37.0-10

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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