CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16941
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-91
Description
NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4, when experimental mode is enabled, allows arbitrary code execution if the Read XML Files feature of Bit Patterns Explorer is used with a modified XML document. This occurs in Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java. An attack could start with an XML document that was originally created by DumpFunctionPatternInfoScript but then directly modified by an attacker (for example, to make a java.lang.Runtime.exec call).
Affected configurations
• nsa ghidra (<= 9.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-91 XML Injection weakness
References
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/79d8f164f8bb8b15cfb60c5d4faeb8e1c25d15ca/Ghidra/Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java#L187-L188 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/a17728f8c12effa171b17a25ccfb7e7d9528c5d0 github.com
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/purpleracc00n/CVE-2019-16941 github.com
- https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1178812792159248385 twitter.com
- https://www.symantec.com/security-center/vulnerabilities/writeup/110223?om_rssid=sr-advisories www.symantec.com
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/79d8f164f8bb8b15cfb60c5d4faeb8e1c25d15ca/Ghidra/Features/BytePatterns/src/main/java/ghidra/bitpatterns/info/FileBitPatternInfoReader.java#L187-L188 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/a17728f8c12effa171b17a25ccfb7e7d9528c5d0 github.com
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/1090 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/purpleracc00n/CVE-2019-16941 github.com
- https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1178812792159248385 twitter.com
- https://www.symantec.com/security-center/vulnerabilities/writeup/110223?om_rssid=sr-advisories www.symantec.com