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CVE-2023-0302: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in radareorg/radare2

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-75

Description

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository radareorg/radare2 prior to 5.8.2.

Affected products

• radareorg/radare2: before 5.8.2 — fixed in 5.8.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: radareorg/radare2 5.8.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/961f0e723903011d4f54c2396e44efa91fcc74ce
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/583133af-7ae6-4a21-beef-a4b0182cf82e
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/961f0e723903011d4f54c2396e44efa91fcc74ce
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/583133af-7ae6-4a21-beef-a4b0182cf82e

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