Is CVE-2026-49497 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-49497 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-49497?

CVE-2026-49497 has a CVSS v3 base score of 3.3 (LOW).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-49497?

CVE-2026-49497 has an EPSS score of 0.18% (8th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2026-49497?

Upgrade ghidra to 12.1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-49497

LOW

3.3

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Ghidra before 12.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in SameDirDebugInfoProvider that fails to validate filenames from ELF binary .gnu_debuglink sections before constructing file paths. Attackers can craft malicious ELF binaries with traversal sequences to probe filesystem existence and leak CRC32 hashes of arbitrary files during automatic DWARF analysis.

CWE-22Path Traversal

How to fix

Remediation Available

ghidraNVD

Affected:< 12.1Fixed in:12.1CVE-2026-49497derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.18%probability of exploitation in 30 days

8thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 8% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

github.com

Third-Party Advisory1

vulncheck.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-11.