What is CVE-2026-49497?

CVE-2026-49497 is a low-severity vulnerability in Nationalsecurityagency Ghidra, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2026-06-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-49497?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Nationalsecurityagency Ghidra

CVE-2026-49497

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.002 (8.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Nationalsecurityagency Ghidra — versions 0, 12.1
Nsa Ghidra

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (Exploit, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-49497?: CVE-2026-49497 is a low-severity vulnerability in Nationalsecurityagency Ghidra, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2026-06-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-49497?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.