🛡️ CVE-2025-5645 — radare2

🟢 CVSS 2.5 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-119 NVD

2.5

CVSS Score

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Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Radare2 5.9.9. This affects the function r_cons_pal_init in the library /libr/cons/pal.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation of the argument -T leads to memory corruption. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 identifier 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-5645 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

CVE-2025-5645 is recorded against 1 package.

radare2

Timeline and source

Published on 5 June 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2025-5645 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity LOW

CVSS Score 2.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE CWE-119

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2025-06-05

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

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

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
radare2	—	—

References

Exploit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVaraZB30lJXtrvp-4bcEJrZYFJb2bfc/view?usp=sharing

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

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24234

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24234#issuecomment-2918847551

Permissions Required, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311133

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?id.311133

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://vuldb.com/?submit.586922

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