CVE-2026-52753 (GCVE-0-2026-52753)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-10 12:40 – Updated: 2026-06-10 15:14 X_Open Source
VLAI?
Title
Ghidra < 12.0.3 - Out-of-Memory in Rust Symbol Demangler via Malformed Symbol
Summary
Ghidra before 12.0.3 contains an out-of-memory vulnerability in the rust_demangle function that allocates unbounded output buffers without size limits. Attackers can craft malicious Rust symbol names in binaries to trigger exponential memory allocation, causing process crashes during binary analysis.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nationalsecurityagency | ghidra |
Affected:
0 , < 12.0.3
(semver)
Unaffected: 12.0.3 (semver) |
Credits
Ze Sheng (@OwenSanzas)
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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