CVE-2026-49497
lowpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 8 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1–4.6
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affected products (2)
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references (6)
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- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49497cnnvd
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-57g6-7qw2-p5hxenisa_euvd
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-path-traversal-via-gnu-debuglink-in-dwarf-external-debug-file-resolutionenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-57g6-7qw2-p5hxExploitVendor Advisorynvd
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-path-traversal-via-gnu-debuglink-in-dwarf-external-debug-file-resolutionThird Party Advisorynvd
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