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TI-2025-05084 Aliases CVE-2025-5644GHSA-mmq4-59cg-p659

Radare2 radiff2 cons.c r_cons_flush use after free

Priority MEDIUM 44CWE-119Published · Updated

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, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Radare2 5.9.9. Affected by this issue is the function r_cons_flush in the library /libr/cons/cons.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation of the argument -T leads to use after free. Local access is required to approach this attack. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known 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 name of the patch is 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 15th 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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—Radare25.9.9—No fix listedCNA
  • Radare2 Vendor— Affected 5.9.9 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2:5.9.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.9.9Vulnerableradareorg
  • 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

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-5644
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mmq4-59cg-p659

References

  • 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