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Vulnerability · Published Jul 20, 2020 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2020-15121Command injection in Radare2

High 7.4

In plain English

A high-severity OS command injection in radare2 from radareorg. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.4High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In radare2 before version 4.5.0, malformed PDB file names in the PDB server path cause shell injection. To trigger the problem it's required to open the executable in radare2 and run idpd to trigger the download. The shell code will execute, and will create a file called pwned in the current directory.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20radare24.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-15121
Alpine:v3.21radare24.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-15121
Alpine:v3.22radare24.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-15121
Alpine:v3.23radare24.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-15121
Alpine:v3.24radare24.5.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-15121
Ubuntu:25.10radare2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-15121
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSradare2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-15121
Ubuntu:26.10radare2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-15121

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
radareorg radare2 < 4.5.0

Weakness: CWE-78 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

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