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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.6 Medium

CVE-2026-49497

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

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
VulnCheck

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

nationalsecurityagency ghidra

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 12.1affected
  • 12.1unaffected
pkg:github/nationalsecurityagency/ghidra

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