{"id":"CVE-2026-115394","title":"Ghidra through 12.2 Denial of Service via BinaryField Memory Allocation","summary":"Ghidra through 12.2 contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability in BinaryField.read() that allows attackers to exhaust heap memory via an unchecked 32-bit length field. Attackers can persuade users to import a crafted GZF pa…","severity":"medium","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cvssSource":"cna","cwe":["CWE-789"],"vendor":"NationalSecurityAgency","product":"ghidra","affected":["ghidra <= 12.2"],"published":"2026-10-22","updated":"2026-10-22","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-22T19:14:00.068Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115394","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-q538-hhhf-5jxp","label":"GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-q538-hhhf-5jxp)"},{"url":"https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.2_build/Ghidra/Framework/DB/src/main/java/db/BinaryField.java#L105-L113"},{"url":"https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra_12.2_build/Ghidra/Framework/DB/src/main/java/db/buffers/DataBuffer.java#L170-L174"},{"url":"https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-through-12.2-denial-of-service-via-binaryfield-memory-allocation","label":"VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra through 12.2 Denial of Service via BinaryField Memory Allocation"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T22:00:50.410Z","slug":"CVE-2026-115394","body":"## Overview\n\nGhidra through 12.2 contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability in BinaryField.read() that allows attackers to exhaust heap memory via an unchecked 32-bit length field. Attackers can persuade users to import a crafted GZF packed database file, triggering an OutOfMemoryError in PackedDatabase.open() that aborts the import and denies service.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `ghidra <= 12.2`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}