CVE-2026-40499

Summary

radare2 prior to version 6.1.4 contains a command injection vulnerability in the PDB parser's print_gvars() function that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by embedding a newline byte in the PE section header name field. Attackers can craft a malicious PDB file with specially crafted section names to inject r2 commands that are executed when the idp command processes the file.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
radareorgradare20 < 6.1.4affected
radareorgradare25590c87deeb7eb2a106fd7aab9ca88bfeebb7397unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References