CVE-2026-88837
CVE-2026-88837: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium6.5
Medium [CVE-2026-88837] httpd misidentifies yescrypt password hashes as plaintext, inverting authentication
CVE-2026-88837Source published Source updated
httpd misidentifies yescrypt password hashes as plaintext, inverting authentication. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.5). Weakness: CWE-305. Red Hat lists fixing advisory RHSA-2026:72111 with package busybox-main-1.37.0-9.1.hum1. Affected product named by the advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images.
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- Red Hat Hardened Images
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- busybox-main-1.37.0-9.1.hum1
- RHSA-2026:72111
- Mitigation guidance
- Do not use BusyBox httpd for password-protected resources. If it must be used, configure authentication with SHA-512 ($6$) hashes, which are correctly detected. Upstream should update the hash detection logic to recognize the $y$ prefix.
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