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CVE-2026-40499: radare2 < 6.1.4 Command Injection via PDB Parser print_gvars()

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-15 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

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 products

• radareorg/radare2: through 6.1.4

References

• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/5590c87deeb7eb2a106fd7aab9ca88bfeebb7397
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/25752
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.1.4
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/radare2-command-injection-via-pdb-parser-print-gvars

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