NSA Ghidra Auto-Analysis Annotation Command Execution_CVE-2026-4946

8.8 / 10

HIGH

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

Description

Ghidra versions prior to 12.0.3 improperly process annotation directives embedded in automatically extracted binary data, resulting in arbitrary command execution when an analyst interacts with the UI. Specifically, the @execute annotation (which is intended for trusted, user-authored comments) is also parsed in comments generated during auto-analysis (such as CFStrings in Mach-O binaries). This allows a crafted binary to present seemingly benign clickable text which, when clicked, executes attacker-controlled commands on the analyst’s machine.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-4946

Source AHA

Published Mar 29, 2026 at 19:35

Modified Mar 30, 2026 at 15:00

Affected Product

Vendor NSA

Product Ghidra

Affected Versions NSA Ghidra 0

CWE Classification

CWE-78

References

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