CVE-2026-115398
Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via TAR and ZIP File System Mount
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.8 Medium
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 22, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 6.8 Medium | 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 | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ghidraNationalSecurityAgency |
|
References
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-vvp8-22p8-x954)vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/061ec06a79f4147267f6fc690b0dcf944b2d4957patch
- ghidra Ghidra_12.2_build Release Notesrelease-notes
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidraproduct
- VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via TAR and ZIP File System Mountthird-party-advisory
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