ASA-2019-00579 – NSA Ghidra: DLL Hijacking


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ASA-2019-00579

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00579, CVE-2019-17665

Title

DLL Hijacking

Vendor(s)

National Security Agency (NSA)

Product(s)

NSA Ghidra

Affected version(s)

NSA Ghidra versions before 9.0.2

Fixed version(s)

NSA Ghidra version 9.0.2

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking because it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

dalvarezperez

Reference(s)

DLL Hijacking “jansi.dll” #286
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/286

GT-2725: Preventing log4j from using optional jansi.dll on Windows
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/commit/a252ec1c1fff6f26b6286b0e3a1c488b0ea64474

CVE-2019-17665
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17665

CVE-2019-17665
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17665

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Last modified: October 21, 2019

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