Medium severity · published Sep 22, 2026
CVE-2026-81885
radare2: Infinite relocation-chain loop causes denial of service in radare2 NE 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 NE relocation fixup-chain parser was vulnerable because the NE relocation parser followed fixup chains without an active iteration limit or cycle detection. The vulnerability is triggered by opening a crafted NE executable whose in-bounds relocation entry points back to itself instead of reaching 0xffff. The parser repeatedly processed the same relocation and allocated another relocation object on each iteration. This can cause denial of service through continuous CPU and memory consumption. 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 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-2026-81885
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81885
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/93d794caa7c2f08413106255d49546e544c1f9f0
Exploit
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26225
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26192
Release Notes
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
Patch
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-43wr-4j49-rcxj
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