CVE-2019-16941: Nsa Ghidra

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Nsa Ghidra: up to and including 9.0.4

Published 2019-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.