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CVE-2026-40468

LOW
INFO Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2026-07-13 Modified: 2026-10-24 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: Present
VC: None
VI: Low
VA: Low

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
fossies gawk < 5.4.0

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

2.1 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.20%
Raw Score 0.002010
Percentile 10.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00201
2026-10-28
0.00201

Intelligence Sources

nvd ref →

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