Published May 28, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
4.8MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-42250 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 4.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Jun 28, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
1.0.8-2
3.15.0.aks0-15
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-42250?
bzip2 contains an off‑by‑one error in the bzip2recover utility. When processing a specially crafted file, the application performs an out‑of‑bounds write to a global buffer, resulting in memory corruption and a crash (denial of service).
This issue was fixed in bzip2 patch 35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67