Medium severity · published Sep 22, 2026
CVE-2026-81878
radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's CPython bytecode .pyc marshal parser was vulnerable because the CPython marshal readers accepted a 32-bit string length without rejecting values that overflow the size-plus-one allocation. The vulnerability is triggered by opening or inspecting a crafted .pyc file through r2 or rabin2. A length of 0xffffffff wrapped the allocation to zero before the common byte reader wrote attacker-controlled data and fill bytes beyond the heap allocation. This can cause heap memory corruption and denial of service; arbitrary code execution is possible but has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
radare2 · radareorg
< 6.2.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81878
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81878
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/6727454b666b28c33837b219a5f91136461357c0
Exploit
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26222
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26177
Release Notes
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-9phv-v2w8-56j3
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