CVE-2026-52751
Description
Ghidra before 12.1 contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in client-side Shared-Project RMI connection code that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. Attackers can craft a malicious project file with a ghidra:// URL that, when opened via File โ Open Project, deserializes untrusted objects using a Jython 2.7.4 gadget chain to execute arbitrary commands.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/91a269103fe5d133c14ec3afa60280dccb94be5c
- https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/security/advisories/GHSA-fgg5-g275-7742
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghidra-remote-code-execution-via-unfiltered-rmi-deserialization-in-shared-project-connection
CWEs
CWE-502
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.