# CVE-2026-40517

> Vulnerability · severity: **HIGH** (CVSS 7.8).

## Description

radare2 prior to 6.1.4 contains a command injection vulnerability in the PDB parser's print_gvars() function that allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by crafting a malicious PDB file with newline characters in symbol names. Attackers can inject arbitrary radare2 commands through unsanitized symbol name interpolation in the flag rename command, which are then executed when a user runs the idp command against the malicious PDB file, enabling arbitrary OS command execution through radare2's shell execution operator.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-40517
- **Published:** 2026-04-22
- **CVSS severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS base score:** 7.8
- **CWE codes:** CWE-78

## Affected products

- `radare:radare2`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40517

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-40517. Retrieved 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-40517. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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