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CVE-2026-49497

LOW
3.3
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-49497
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
VulnCheck
Reserved
2026-05-31 11:54 UTC
Published
2026-06-10 12:37 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-10 15:09 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory …
Vendor / Product
nationalsecurityagency / ghidra
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

3.3 LOW CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Tech. Impact
partial
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
nationalsecurityagency ghidra 0 < 12.1, 12.1
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-22 cna Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
4.6 MEDIUM 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
3.3 LOW 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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