🛡️ CVE-2026-40468 — gawk

🔴 CVSS 9.1 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-190 NVD
9.1
CVSS Score
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Description

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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 high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40468 is classified as CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Arithmetic produces a value too large for its type and wraps around, so a later size or bounds check passes when it should not.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40468 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gawk (fixed in 5.4.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 July 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert.pl
cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-14

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gawk — 5.4.0

Exploit Protection

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