CVE-2026-102474

A flaw was found in dash. The printf builtin reserves four bytes before converting a Unicode \u or \U escape, but the multi-byte token can need five or six bytes. A local user who can supply such an escape to dash printf or echo %b, including through dash -c and a positional argument, can write one or two bytes past that reservation.

  • Published Sep 29, 2026
  • CVSS 4.0 medium
  • 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-102474 at the National Vulnerability Database