CVE-2019-17664

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-426

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 16, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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