CVE-2020-17487

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-17487 · Published 11/08/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-17487 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting radare2 (radare).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
radare2 radare	`= 4.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

radare2 4.5.0 misparses signature information in PE files, causing a segmentation fault in r_x509_parse_algorithmidentifier in libr/util/x509.c. This is due to a malformed object identifier in IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY.

References

radareorg/radare2 · Exploit
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45SGGCWFIIV7N2X2QZRREHOW7ODT3IH7
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJET3RR6W7LAK4H6VPTMAZS24W7XYHRZ

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

radare2

radare

= 4.5.0

No fix yet

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