CVE-2026-52753

medium

Description

Ghidra before 12.0.3 contains an out-of-memory vulnerability in the rust_demangle function that allocates unbounded output buffers without size limits. Attackers can craft malicious Rust symbol names in binaries to trigger exponential memory allocation, causing process crashes during binary analysis.

References

Advisories

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-out-of-memory-in-rust-symbol-demangler-via-malformed-symbol

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-m94m-fqr3-x442

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-10

Updated: 2026-06-11

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: 6.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013