CVE-2019-17664

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Oct 16, 2019 (Oct 16, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: nsa
Products: ghidra
Weakness: CWE-426
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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