Security advisory

{
  "id": "73609c50126f3ec6f340c9adff8a3616fcaa6d164d9eca8db5d0a08e029b04ea",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17664",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-17664",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-17664",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-17664",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-17664"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency/ghidra",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "6b4d64a2ac07f154bf1fca307ad99aaa522d41e4"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nsa:ghidra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "9.0.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "Ghidra_9.0.4_build",
            "Ghidra_9.0.3_build",
            "Ghidra_9.0.1_build"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-17664.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:29.071617882Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/107"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-17664",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383668,
  "published_at": "2019-10-16T20:15:11.183+00:00"
}