CVE-2026-115398

medium

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.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-before-12.2-denial-of-service-via-tar-and-zip-file-system-mount

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-vvp8-22p8-x954

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases/tag/Ghidra_12.2_build

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/061ec06a79f4147267f6fc690b0dcf944b2d4957

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-22

Updated: 2026-10-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium