CVE-2026-115398: medium-severity vulnerability in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra
Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via TAR and ZIP File System Mount
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.8epss 0.2%
Ghidra before 12.2 contains a resource allocation without limits vulnerability in FileSystemIndexHelper used by TarFileSystem and ZipFileSystem, which store unbounded archive entries. Attackers can persuade a user to open or batch-import a crafted TAR or ZIP archive with excessive entries to exhaust the Java heap and hang the session.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
NationalSecurityAgency · ghidraRelated CVEs — NationalSecurityAgency ghidra
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-116012LOWGhidra before 12.2 Integer Truncation in PackedDecode::skipAttribute Decompiler ParserEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-54389MEDIUMGhidra < 12.1.3 PDB Parser Uncontrolled Heap Growth DoS via AbstractPdbEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-115394MEDIUMGhidra through 12.2 Denial of Service via BinaryField Memory AllocationEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-113604MEDIUMGhidra 10.2 through 12.1.4 Denial of Service via ELF Loader Extended Header CountsEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-100504HIGHGhidra through 12.1.4 Stack-based Buffer Overflow via leftshift128EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-100505MEDIUMGhidra 9.2 through 12.1.4 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via StringManagerEPSS 0.1%
References
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidrahttps://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/061ec06a79f4147267f6fc690b0dcf944b2d4957https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_12.2_buildhttps://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-vvp8-22p8-x954https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-tar-and-zip-file-system-mount