CVE-2026-49497

Low

Description

Ghidra before 12.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in SameDirDebugInfoProvider that fails to validate filenames from ELF binary .gnu_debuglink sections before constructing file paths. Attackers can craft malicious ELF binaries with traversal sequences to probe filesystem existence and leak CRC32 hashes of arbitrary files during automatic DWARF analysis.

SeverityLow

CVSS3.3

Exploit probability—

ProductNsa Ghidra

PublishedJun 10, 2026

First seenJun 10, 2026

Weakness typeCWE-22Path traversal

How to fix

Update

nsa ghidra12.1 or later

Vendor advisories

github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-57g6-7qw2-p5hx

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
nsa ghidra	v < 12.1	12.1

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