CVE-2019-17664

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser > Window > Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe program from this working directory.

Affected products

nationalsecurityagency ghidra: through 9.0.4

References

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/107
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/107

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