CVE-2025-46394
low
CVSS v3
3.2
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
3.2
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
33%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Arch Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Fixed | 1:1.37.0-8 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:1.37.0-8 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| busybox | busybox | {"endIncluding":"1.37.0"} | |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46394
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46394.html
- 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
CWEs
CWE-451
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.