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Description

Ghidra before 12.0.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the extension installer that fails to validate ZIP entry names during extraction. Attackers can craft malicious extensions with traversal sequences like ../ in filenames to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory, enabling code execution.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-08 | Published 2026-06-10 | Updated 2026-06-10 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.4CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 12.0.2
affected

12.0.2 (semver)
unaffected

Credits

@PrasanthSundararajan69 reporter

Fin (@Finder16) finder

References

github.com/...ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-jhc2-q7qf-9c25 exploit

github.com/...ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-jhc2-q7qf-9c25 (GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-jhc2-q7qf-9c25)) vendor-advisory

www.vulncheck.com/...extension-installer-via-zip-entry-names third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-52752)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-52752)

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