Medium severity · published Sep 22, 2026
CVE-2026-81881
radare2: Heap out-of-bounds read in radare2 Mach-O Swift metadata parser
4.4
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 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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% 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-2026-81881
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81881
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/1da6e782df220edf56138ef5fe4f33745b04db74
Exploit
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26229
Release Notes
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-q4w7-225g-64j9
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