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CVE-2026-40469· NVD / CVE Program· CNA CERT-PL

Heap buffer overflow in gawk

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 20/100)

  • 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: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: gawk (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.1-1.hum1, 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1; gawk-all-langpacks (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.1-1.hum1, 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1; gawk-devel (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1, 0:5.4.1-1.hum1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to gawk (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.1-1.hum1, 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1; gawk-all-langpacks (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.1-1.hum1, 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1; gawk-devel (Red Hat:hummingbird:1) 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1, 0:5.4.1-1.hum1 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

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk (do_sub() routine). This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects 32-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

MediumCVSS 5.1 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jul 13, 2026
Updated
Jul 13, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 10th percentile

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Action score

20

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · CERT-PL
5.1
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
fossiesgawk

Affected versions

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

  • fossies gawkup to 5.4.0 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

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

  • GNU gawk

    • up to and including 5.4.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12gawkfrom 0—
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawkbefore 0:5.4.1-1.hum10:5.4.1-1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawkbefore 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum10:5.4.0-3.1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-all-langpacksbefore 0:5.4.1-1.hum10:5.4.1-1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-all-langpacksbefore 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum10:5.4.0-3.1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-develbefore 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum10:5.4.0-3.1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-develbefore 0:5.4.1-1.hum10:5.4.1-1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-docbefore 0:5.4.1-1.hum10:5.4.1-1.hum1
Red Hat:hummingbird:1gawk-docbefore 0:5.4.0-3.1.hum10:5.4.0-3.1.hum1

Same product

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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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

Product / packageFixed versionSource
red hat:gawk0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1Package registry (OSV)
red hat:gawk-all-langpacks0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1Package registry (OSV)
red hat:gawk-devel0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1Package registry (OSV)
red hat:gawk-doc0:5.4.0-3.1.hum1 · Red Hat:hummingbird:1Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

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

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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