Use After Free in Nationalsecurityagency Ghidra
CVE-2026-100503
Ghidra versions through 12.1.4 contain a heap use-after-free vulnerability in the decompiler's Funcdata::opInsertAfter function caused by stale INDIRECT effect-op references. Attackers can craft a malicious binary with a specific x86-64 sequence that triggers the vulnerability during decompilation, causing the decompile helper process to crash and denying service to analysts and automated analysis pipelines.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS 0.001, 1.7th percentile (scored ); unchanged over 30 days. About EPSS.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra (Product, product)
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/8b6bbb857accdfa20dc5b2f5dea471178… (technical-description, Patch)
- github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/8b6bbb857accdfa20dc5b2f5dea471178… (technical-description, Patch)
- Patch Commit (Patch, patch)
- VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra through 12.1.4 Heap Use-After-Free in Decompiler (Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)