CVE-2026-40468

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

CVSS 4.0

2.1CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

CVSS 3.1

9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 9% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-190

Published

2026-07-13

Modified

2026-10-24

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• fossies:gawk

References

• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467
• https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7

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