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CVE-2026-81882 json

radare2: Missing string termination causes heap out-of-bounds read in radare2 bplist parser

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-84470 , GHSA-r5cr-f9p6-5pvj

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository radareorg/radare2. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's binary property-list Unicode parser was vulnerable because the binary-property-list Unicode parser underallocated an uninitialized UTF-8 destination and did not guarantee NUL termination. The vulnerability is triggered by running the explicit pFB or pFBj commands on untrusted binary property-list data. The json encoder treated the converted data as a nul-terminated c string and could continue reading beyond the allocation. This can cause disclosure of uninitialized or adjacent heap contents in JSON output and possible process termination. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

Patch / fix

  • radare radare2 6.2.0
  • radare2 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.2.2-bp160.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21988-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-81882 updated cvss 3.9

radare2: radare2: Information disclosure and denial of service due to heap out-of-bounds read

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26227 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • radareorg radare2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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The maintainers of radareorg/radare2 published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.