CVE-2019-17664 - NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path

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HIGH

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path

Published Oct 16, 2019

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.43%

Description

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser > Window > Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe program from this working directory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-426

References (1)

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/107
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/107		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 16, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Oct 16, 2019

Link CVE-2019-17664

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-17664

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-17664