[ CVE-2026-115398 · Published 22 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra
CVSS 5.5
No fix listed yet
[ Description ]Official description
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.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ References ]References
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/061ec06a79f4147267f6fc690b0dcf944b2d4957
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_12.2_build
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-vvp8-22p8-x954
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-tar-and-zip-file-…