PT-2026-48408 · U.S. National Security Agency · Ghidra

Donghwoo Cho · Published 2026-06-10 · Updated 2026-06-10 · CVE-2026-49497

NVD

CVSS v3.1

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-49497

Affected Products

Ghidra

References · 3

• https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-57g6-7qw2-p5hx · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49497 · Security Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-path-traversal-via-gnu-debuglink-in-dwarf-external-debug-file-resolution · Note