CVE-2026-49497 Ghidra < 12.1 - Path Traversal via .gnu_debuglink in DWARF External Debug File Resolution

What is CVE-2026-49497?

CVE-2026-49497 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in nationalsecurityagency ghidra, published on 10 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-49497?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nsa Ghidra.

How do I fix CVE-2026-49497?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-49497 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2026-49497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-49497 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
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Also known as GHSA-57g6-7qw2-p5hx.