NVD / CVE Program· CNA fedora

CVE-2024-11858: Radare2: command injection via pebble application files in radare2

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.79% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 56.7% of all records.
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: github.com/radareorg/radare2 radare2 5.9.9.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to github.com/radareorg/radare2 radare2 5.9.9 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A flaw was found in Radare2, which contains a command injection vulnerability caused by insufficient input validation when handling Pebble Application files. Maliciously crafted inputs can inject shell commands during command parsing, leading to unintended behavior during file processing

Published: Dec 15, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.7% · 56th percentile
CWE: CWE-78

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.7%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 7.8
CNA · fedora: 8.6; 0.8 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
radare	radare2	cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (fedora). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

github.com/radareorg/radare2 radare2
- 0.9.7 and later · before 5.9.9affected · semver

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

radare radare2up to 5.9.8 inclusive

Same product

radare: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-1864Buffer Overflow and Potential Code Execution in Radare2
40Plan
CVE-2025-1744Out-of-bounds Write in radare2
40Plan
CVE-2024-29646Buffer Overflow vulnerability in radarorg radare2 v.5.8.8 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the name, type, or group fields.
39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-48241Oct 30, 2024 · An issue in radare2 v5.8.0 through v5.9.4 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the __bf_div function.
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-29645Dec 2, 2024 · Buffer Overflow vulnerability in radarorg radare2 v.5.8.8 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_die function.
31Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-1378Feb 17, 2025 · radare2 rasm2 rasm2.c memory corruption
19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
github.com/radareorg/radare2 radare2	5.9.9	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2026-40527488 days apartradare2 Command Injection via DWARF Parameter Names
34Monitor
CVE-2026-40499486 days apartradare2 < 6.1.4 Command Injection via PDB Parser print_gvars()
33Monitor
CVE-2026-40517493 days apartradare2 < 6.1.4 Command Injection via PDB Parser Symbol Names
33Monitor
CVE-2026-41015487 days apartradare2 before 9236f44, when configured on UNIX without SSL, allows command injection via a PDB name to rabin2 -PP.
29Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
A user must open a link or visit a page.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-78 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const host = req.body.host;
2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

Fixed

1const host = req.body.host;
2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);
3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log (1)

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329102

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