Medium 5.5Published Oct 22, 2026

CVE-2026-115398Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via TAR and ZIP File System Mount

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:50 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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: 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 23, 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-vvp8-22p8-x954	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/061ec06a79f4147267f6fc690b0dcf944b2d4957	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-tar-and-zip-file-system-mount	third-party-advisory

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