What is CVE-2023-22671?

CVE-2023-22671 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nsa Ghidra, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-01-06.

How severe is CVE-2023-22671?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Nsa Ghidra

CVE-2023-22671

Ghidra/RuntimeScripts/Linux/support/launch.sh in NSA Ghidra through 10.2.2 passes user-provided input into eval, leading to command injection when calling analyzeHeadless with untrusted input.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2023-01-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (87.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-25.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.030 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Nsa Ghidra

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/4869 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/4872 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-22671?: CVE-2023-22671 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Nsa Ghidra, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-01-06.
How severe is CVE-2023-22671?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.