radare2 < 6.1.4 Project Deletion Path Traversal Directory Deletion
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
radare2 prior to 6.1.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability in project deletion that allows local attackers to recursively delete arbitrary directories by supplying absolute paths that escape the configured dir.projects root directory. Attackers can craft absolute paths to project marker files outside the project storage boundary to cause recursive deletion of attacker-chosen directories with permissions of the radare2 process, resulting in integrity and availability loss.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA radare2 (radareorg) Fixed in 6.1.4
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-6940
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x2x5-gj4j-p6qw
References
Exploit 1
Patch 1
More radareorg Radare2 vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-6940 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-6940 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x2x5-gj4j-p6qw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-6940 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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