CVE-2026-96273

Ghidra before 12.1.4 Denial of Service via Unreleased Lock in OptionsDB

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Sep 23, 2026
Updated: Sep 28, 2026
Reserved: Sep 22, 2026

Description

Ghidra before 12.1.4 fails to validate the TYPE_COL byte in OptionsDB.createUnregisteredOption(), causing an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that leaves domain objects permanently locked. Attackers can craft a malicious program database file that, when imported, causes the application to stall and prevents resource cleanup or graceful shutdown.

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-460 Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception
CWE-667 Improper Locking

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ghidraNationalSecurityAgency	before 12.1.4Affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-4w7g-wmg8-fgv5)vendor-advisory
GP-7190 fix commitpatch
Unvalidated OptionType index at 12.1.3technical-description
ghidra Ghidra_12.1.4_build Release Notesrelease-notes
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidraproduct
VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra before 12.1.4 Denial of Service via Crafted Databasethird-party-advisory

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