Resource exhaustion in Ghidra - #VU127894
Published: April 25, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU127894
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in the rust_demangle() function in the GPL/DemanglerGnu component when parsing crafted Rust symbol names during binary analysis. A remote attacker can supply a malicious binary with crafted Rust symbol names to cause a denial of service.
A small crafted input can trigger unbounded memory allocation and crash Ghidra during analysis.
Affected software
Ghidra
Remediation
Install security update from vendor's website.
Ghidra - update to 12.0.3