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CVE-2026-52751

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Description

Ghidra before 12.1 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in client-side Shared-Project RMI connection code that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. Attackers can craft a malicious project file with a ghidra:// URL that, when opened via File → Open Project, deserializes untrusted objects using a Jython 2.7.4 gadget chain to execute arbitrary commands.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.6 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-10 14:16:35.187000
Last modified
2026-10-26 11:10:00.157000
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  "published": "2026-06-10T14:16:35.187",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-26T11:10:00.157",
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