CVE-2026-115398
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Ghidra before 12.2 contains a resource allocation without limits vulnerability in FileSystemIndexHelper used by TarFileSystem and ZipFileSystem, which store unbounded archive entries. Attackers can persuade a user to open or batch-import a crafted TAR or ZIP archive with excessive entries to exhaust the Java heap and hang the session.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.8
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-22 20:17:06.033000
Last modified
2026-10-29 17:28:32.253000
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