Medium 5.5Published Oct 22, 2026

CVE-2026-115397Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via Extension Archive Install

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 12:40 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Ghidra before 12.2 contains a resource allocation without limits vulnerability in ExtensionUtils.unzipToInstallationFolder() that extracts every extension ZIP entry without limiting file count. Attackers who persuade a user to install a crafted extension archive with many files can exhaust filesystem inodes, causing project writes and other processes 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-770
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)	before 12.2	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-j5q9-fhqg-q995	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/7cb4e778efb69acb1919f841ad46d0da36e77eeb	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-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-extension-archive-install	third-party-advisory

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