CVE-2017-16544

HIGHNVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 6.1%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in executing any escape sequence in the terminal. This could potentially result in code execution, arbitrary file writes, or other attacks.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
The EG Score, 8.8 of 10.
Exploitation6.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
6.1%
EPSS %ILE
93rd
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

November 20, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated May 23, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20210113-0 :: Multiple vulnerabilities in Pepperl+Fuchs IO-Link Master Series

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Jan/39
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20210819-0 :: Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Altus Nexto and Hadron series

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Aug/21
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20200902-0 :: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Red Lion N-Tron 702-W, Red Lion N-Tron 702M12-W

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Sep/6
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20200312-0 :: Authenticated Command Injection in Phoenix Contact TC Router & TC Cloud Client

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/15
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20200827-0 :: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ZTE mobile Hotspot MS910S

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20190904-0 :: Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco router series RV34X, RV26X and RV16X

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
Web page

Full Disclosure: SEC Consult SA-20190612-0 :: Multiple vulnerabilities in WAGO 852 Industrial Managed Switch Series

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
Web page

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167552/Nexans-FTTO-GigaSwitch-Outdated-Components-Hardcoded-Backdoor.html
Web page

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154536/VMware-Security-Advisory-2019-0013.html
Web page

Packet Storm

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuudhcpd (1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1.4) @ xenial2026-05-22ubuntu

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(28 across 28 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.3(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.24.2-r2: fixed in 1.24.2-r2
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Alpine:v3.4(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.24.2-r13: fixed in 1.24.2-r13
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Alpine:v3.5(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.25.1-r1: fixed in 1.25.1-r1
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Alpine:v3.6(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.26.2-r9: fixed in 1.26.2-r9
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Alpine:v3.7(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1.27.2-r4: fixed in 1.27.2-r4
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Debian:11(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1:1.27.2-2: fixed in 1:1.27.2-2
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Debian:12(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1:1.27.2-2: fixed in 1:1.27.2-2
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Debian:13(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1:1.27.2-2: fixed in 1:1.27.2-2
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Debian:14(1)
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busybox—
  • every version up to 1:1.27.2-2: fixed in 1:1.27.2-2
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Debian:8(1)
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busybox1:1.22.0-9+deb8u1, 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u1+kbsd8u1
  • every version up to 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u2: fixed in 1:1.22.0-9+deb8u2
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Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
busybox1:1.22.0-19
  • every version up to 1:1.22.0-19+deb9u1: fixed in 1:1.22.0-19+deb9u1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 24× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 92 of 156 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 8 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 64 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-16544?
CVE-2017-16544 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on November 20, 2017. In the add_match function in libbb/lineedit.c in BusyBox through 1.27.2, the tab autocomplete feature of the shell, used to get a list of filenames in a directory, does not sanitize filenames and results in executing any escape sequence in the terminal. This could potentially result in code…
When was CVE-2017-16544 made public?
CVE-2017-16544 was made public on November 20, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on November 20, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-16544 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-16544 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-16544?
CVE-2017-16544 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-16544?
A fix for CVE-2017-16544 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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