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CVE-2026-52757: nationalsecurityagency ghidra · Use After Free

Affects nationalsecurityagency ghidraSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 4.6 Medium : upgrade to 12.1 when convenient.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
4.6Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 3% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 12.1
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 10 Jun 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade nationalsecurityagency ghidra to 12.1.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
nationalsecurityagencyghidraAffected
  • <12.1
Fixed in
  • 12.1
GitHubghidrapkg:github/ghidraOther threatsAffected
  • <12.1
Fixed in
  • 12.1

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AI-suggested

If you cannot patch yet, avoid opening untrusted or specially crafted binaries in the decompiler view to reduce risk.

Description

Ghidra before 12.1 contains a heap-use-after-free vulnerability in the decompiler's HighVariable::merge() function during the variable merging pass. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by crafting a binary that causes stale pointers in the HighIntersectTest::highedgemap cache to be dereferenced, reading and writing the flags field of freed heap memory when a user opens the binary in Ghidra's decompiler view.

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