Medium 5.5Published Oct 22, 2026

CVE-2026-115396Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 Denial of Service via Compressed Theme Archive

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 5:00 PM ET)

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Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 contains an improper handling of highly compressed data vulnerability in ThemeReader.processIconFile() that fails to limit decompressed size or compression ratio. Attackers can persuade a user to import a crafted theme ZIP whose icon entries expand to fill the host filesystem, causing later writes to fail.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-409
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 22, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 22, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

NationalSecurityAgency ghidra nationalsecurityagency:ghidra (from the name)	from 10.3 before 12.2	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-6mj8-x8x9-7gxq	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/2c2bc5be182d655c9df418ac35b9782f39b6a784	patch
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_12.2_build	release-notes
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-10.3-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-compressed-theme-archive	third-party-advisory

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