CVE-2026-115397
Received Received - Intake

Ghidra File Descriptor Exhaustion via Extension ZIP Extraction

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-115397, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-22

Last updated on: 2026-10-22

Assigner: VulnCheck

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.

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Published
2026-10-22
Last Modified
2026-10-22
Generated
2026-10-23
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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NationalSecurityAgency ghidra 0

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CWE-770 The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.

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