# CVE-2026-115395: Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 Denial of Service via ThemeReader.readZipTheme()


- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`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`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 22 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fvwx-pwq5-3738, GHSA-hmjg-837r-prfv

## What is CVE-2026-115395?

CVE-2026-115395 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra, published on 22 Oct 2026. 

### Official description

Ghidra 10.3 before 12.2 contains a resource allocation without limits vulnerability in ThemeReader.readZipTheme() that extracts unlimited theme ZIP entries to the images directory. Attackers can persuade users to import a crafted theme archive with many small files, exhausting inodes and disk space to deny service to the host.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115395?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Nsa Ghidra.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-115395?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-115395 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-115395 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115395 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra

- [CVE-2023-22671](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22671/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-16941](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16941/): XML external entity in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2019-13625](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-13625/): XML external entity in n/a (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2026-4946](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4946/): NSA Ghidra Auto-Analysis Annotation Command Execution (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-49498](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-49498/): Ghidra 11.0 < 12.1 - SQL Injection in PostgreSQL Password Change via Unescaped Username (high 8.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-115395 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-115395 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra, published on 22 Oct 2026. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115395 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: NationalSecurityAgency ghidra. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115395/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115395/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115395
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115395
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-115395

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-115395/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.