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CVE-2026-81881

medium

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.

Vendor / product: Radare — radare2

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's Mach-O Swift field-metadata parser was vulnerable because a relative Swift field pointer could be lower than the field-metadata section base, making subtraction produce a negative logical index. The vulnerability is triggered by parsing Swift type and class metadata from a crafted Mach-O file. The derived index was used to read four bytes immediately before the allocated field-metadata buffer. This can cause incorrect metadata processing or process termination; no attacker-observable memory disclosure has been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

CVSS
4.4
4.4 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-22 16:18
Modified: 2026-09-25 16:49
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:55 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

radare / radare2 <6.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26229
Vendor advisory: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-q4w7-225g-64j9
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/1da6e782df220edf56138ef5fe4f33745b04db74
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26229
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-q4w7-225g-64j9

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:55 UTC · record ↗

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