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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-88837

Busybox: busybox: httpd misidentifies yescrypt password hashes as plaintext, inverting authentication

Description

BusyBox httpd treats yescrypt ($y$) password hashes as plaintext during Basic Authentication, inverting the authentication check.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images

Default version status: affected

  • 1.37.0-9.1.hum1 to < *unaffected

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