CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-17664

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

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.

Affected configurations

• nsa ghidra (<= 9.0.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References