Vulnerability · Published Oct 22, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

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

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in ghidra from NationalSecurityAgency. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
NationalSecurityAgency	ghidra	0 – before 12.2

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-j5q9-fhqg-q995) vendor-advisory
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/7cb4e778efb69acb1919f841ad46d0da36e77eeb patch
ghidra Ghidra_12.2_build Release Notes release-notes
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra product
VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via Extension Archive Install third-party-advisory