CVE-2026-81878CWE-190CWE-787

CVE-2026-81878

Medium · published September 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00202 · 9.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-09-22T20:18Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
radare/radare2< 6.2.06.2.0
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 SEP 03:25Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 22 SEP 15:07Z
    radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser
    cvelistv5