TI-2025-05082 Aliases CVE-2025-5642 GHSA-cg87-4m9w-583q

Radare2 radiff2 pal.c r_cons_pal_init memory corruption

MEDIUM 44CWE-119Published 2025-06-05 · Updated 2025-06-05

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: High
Attack requirements: None
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · Low
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Radare2 5.9.9. Affected is the function r_cons_pal_init in the library /libr/cons/pal.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The patch is identified as 5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The documentation explains that the parameter -T is experimental and "crashy". Further analysis has shown "the race is not a real problem unless you use asan". A new warning has been added.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00246 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD and the CNA

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	Radare2	5.9.9	—	No fix listed	CNA

Radare2 Vendor— Affected 5.9.9 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2:5.9.9:::::::*	5.9.9	Vulnerable	radareorg

cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2:5.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.9.9 Vulnerable ·radareorg

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-5642
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cg87-4m9w-583q

References

Exploit 2

Patch 1

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798

Advisory 1

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24231#issuecomment-2918848163

TI-2023-25089 An out-of-bounds read in radare2 v.5.8.9 and before exists in the print_insn32 function… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2023-25088 An out-of-bounds read in radare2 v.5.8.9 and before exists in the print_insn32_fpu… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2021-12172 Radare2 has a division by zero vulnerability in Mach-O parser's rebase_buffer function. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2026-07640 radare2 6.1.5 Use-After-Free via gdbr_pids_list() CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-07639 radare2 6.1.5 Use-After-Free via gdbr_threads_list() CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2023-03993 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in radareorg/radare2 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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