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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-15121

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CVE-2020-15121

In radare2 before version 4.5.0, malformed PDB file names in the PDB server path cause shell injection.

Published Modified CWE 78
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD.

Description

In radare2 before version 4.5.0, malformed PDB file names in the PDB server path cause shell injection. To trigger the problem it's required to open the executable in radare2 and run idpd to trigger the download. The shell code will execute, and will create a file called pwned in the current directory.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.12radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.13radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.14radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.15radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.16radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.17radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.18radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.19radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.20radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.21radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.22radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.23radare24.5.0-r0
Show all 14 entries from 14 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.12radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.13radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.14radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.15radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.16radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.17radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.18radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.19radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.20radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.21radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.22radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.23radare24.5.0-r0
alpine 3.24radare24.5.0-r0
alpine edgeradare24.5.0-r0

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.