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CVE-2026-96273
Ghidra before 12.1.4 Denial of Service via Unreleased Lock in OptionsDB
Medium6.8EPSS 0.13%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
Description
Ghidra before 12.1.4 fails to validate the TYPE_COL byte in OptionsDB.createUnregisteredOption(), causing an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that leaves domain objects permanently locked. Attackers can craft a malicious program database file that, when imported, causes the application to stall and prevents resource cleanup or graceful shutdown.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.13% · top 97% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
NationalSecurityAgency · ghidra
- affected < 12.1.4
References (6)
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-4w7g-wmg8-fgv5) (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- GP-7190 fix commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- Unvalidated OptionType index at 12.1.3 (opens in a new tab)technical-description
- ghidra Ghidra_12.1.4_build Release Notes (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra (opens in a new tab)product
- VulnCheck Advisory: Ghidra before 12.1.4 Denial of Service via Crafted Database (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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