Medium 5.5Published Jun 10, 2026

CVE-2026-52753Ghidra < 12.0.3 - Out-of-Memory in Rust Symbol Demangler via Malformed Symbol

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 8:10 AM ET)

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Ghidra before 12.0.3 contains an out-of-memory vulnerability in the rust_demangle function that allocates unbounded output buffers without size limits. Attackers can craft malicious Rust symbol names in binaries to trigger exponential memory allocation, causing process crashes during binary analysis.

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-789
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: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

nationalsecurityagency ghidra nationalsecurityagency:ghidra (from the name)	before 12.0.3; 12.0.3 not affected	CNA record
nsa ghidra nsa:ghidra	before 12.0.3	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-m94m-fqr3-x442	vendor-advisory, exploit
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-out-of-memory-in-rust-symbol-demangler-via-malformed-symbol	third-party-advisory

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