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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-22 · updated 2026-10-29
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

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.

Affected products

• nationalsecurityagency ghidra: before 12.2 — fixed in 12.2
• nationalsecurityagency ghidra: before 12.2 — fixed in 12.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: nationalsecurityagency ghidra 12.2; nationalsecurityagency ghidra 12.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
• https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/7cb4e778efb69acb1919f841ad46d0da36e77eeb
• https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_12.2_build
• https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-j5q9-fhqg-q995
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-extension-archive-install

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