# Gnu Gawk vulnerabilities

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/gawk  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Updated: 13 November 2026, 03:07 UTC. Rebuilt every hour.  
Data: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/gawk.json  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 4 vulnerabilities in Gnu Gawk: 0 in the last 7 days and 0 in the last 90 days, 0 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. The most recent, CVE-2026-40553, was published on 13 July 2026.

## Counts

- Last 7 days: 0
- Last 30 days: 0
- Last 90 days: 0
- All time: 4 (0 critical, 0 exploited in the wild)

## About Gnu Gawk

gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language.

## Latest Gnu Gawk vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-40553: GNU gawk stack buffer overflow in readdir extension](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40553-gnu-gawk-stack-buffer-overflow-in-readdir-extension) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40469: GNU gawk integer overflow in do_sub routine](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40469-gnu-gawk-integer-overflow-in-do-sub-routine) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40468: GNU gawk integer overflow in builtin.c](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40468-gnu-gawk-integer-overflow-in-builtin-c) (info, CVSS 2.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40467: GNU gawk Use After Free in do_getline_redir](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40467-gnu-gawk-use-after-free-in-do-getline-redir) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)

## Most severe Gnu Gawk vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2026-40553: GNU gawk stack buffer overflow in readdir extension](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40553-gnu-gawk-stack-buffer-overflow-in-readdir-extension) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40469: GNU gawk integer overflow in do_sub routine](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40469-gnu-gawk-integer-overflow-in-do-sub-routine) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40467: GNU gawk Use After Free in do_getline_redir](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40467-gnu-gawk-use-after-free-in-do-getline-redir) (info, CVSS 5.1, published 13 Jul 2026)
- [CVE-2026-40468: GNU gawk integer overflow in builtin.c](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-40468-gnu-gawk-integer-overflow-in-builtin-c) (info, CVSS 2.1, published 13 Jul 2026)

## Vulnerabilities per week

Nothing was published in the last eight weeks.

| Week of | Vulns | Critical | Exploited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Other Gnu technologies

- [Gnu Binutils](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/binutils): 42 vulnerabilities
- [GnuTLS](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/gnutls): 21 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Glibc](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/glibc): 20 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu LibreDWG](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/libredwg): 14 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Emacs](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/emacs): 10 vulnerabilities
- [GNU tar](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/tar): 10 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu C Library](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/c-library): 9 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Bash](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/bash): 7 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Wget](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/wget): 7 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Cpio](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/cpio): 5 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Grub2](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/grub2): 5 vulnerabilities
- [Gnu Aspell](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/aspell): 4 vulnerabilities

## Sources

NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories. Rebuilt every hour. Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "Gnu Gawk vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/gawk, 13 November 2026.