Resource exhaustion in Ghidra - CVE-2026-54389
Published: August 19, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU144377
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-54389
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 AbstractPdb.deserializeParameters() when parsing a crafted PDB file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a crafted file to cause a denial of service.
User interaction is required to open or process a crafted PDB file, including in headless batch pipelines handling untrusted PE+PDB pairs.
Affected software
Ghidra
How to mitigate CVE-2026-54389
Install security update from vendor's website.
Ghidra - update to 12.1.3