CVE-2026-115398 Ghidra before 12.2 Denial of Service via TAR and ZIP File System Mount

What is CVE-2026-115398?

CVE-2026-115398 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra, published on 22 Oct 2026.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115398?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nsa Ghidra.

How do I fix CVE-2026-115398?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-115398 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-115398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-115398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in NationalSecurityAgency ghidra

• CVE-2023-22671 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16941 XML external entity in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-13625 XML external entity in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-4946 NSA Ghidra Auto-Analysis Annotation Command Execution High 8.8
• CVE-2026-49498 Ghidra 11.0 < 12.1 - SQL Injection in PostgreSQL Password Change via Unescaped Username High 8.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vvp8-22p8-x954, GHSA-xj66-h4r7-jmmx.