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CVE-2026-124739: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Out-of-bounds Write

Affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.5 High.

Data as of 11 Nov 2026, 10:50 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.5High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (redhat)CVSS 3.17.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6busyboxAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat Hardened ImagesbusyboxAffected–Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat advises preventing untrusted users from creating or modifying configuration files by restricting write permissions on all web root and subdirectory paths served by BusyBox httpd to administrative accounts only (e.g., using 'chmod -R o-w /path/to/webroot'). Additionally, the BusyBox httpd process should be run under an unprivileged user account by specifying the '-u' flag (e.g., 'busybox httpd -u nobody'). Restarting the daemon is required for these changes to take effect. These mitigations reduce the risk of exploitation by limiting write access and dropping elevated privileges.

Description

CVE-2026-124739 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in BusyBox's httpd web server when processing subdirectory configuration files with overly long index page names. An attacker with write permissions to these configuration files could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges or cause a denial of service by crashing the server process. The vulnerability requires BusyBox httpd to be actively running and serving content from directories writable by untrusted users. Red Hat notes that BusyBox is not deployed as a standard web server by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, limiting exposure in typical installations.

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