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🛡️ CVE-2022-0522 on Ubuntu — radare2

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer in NPM radare2.js prior to 5.6.2.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-0522 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package radare2. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0522 is classified as CWE-786: Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer. The product reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0522 is recorded against 1 package.

  • radare2

Timeline and source

Published on 8 February 2022 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
huntr.dev (Report)
github.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

radare2 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-786: Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer) in other software:

CVE-2022-0522 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-02-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
radare2 — —

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