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CVE-2026-40467

Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of gawk (do_getline_redir() routine).

MEDIUM 5.1EPSS 0.21%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of gawk (do_getline_redir() routine). This issue may lead to a crash. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

CVSS 4.0: 5.1 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.21% probability · 12th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-416
Affected: fossies/gawk
Source: cvd@cert.pl

References

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=a2d18c74109e41bec29a23098eba2e00057286d8Patch

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.