Auditing Ghidra Server Authentication: 63 Findings Across the Auth Stack

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ghidra is the NSA’s open-source reverse engineering framework — the kind of tool you reach for when you need to understand what a binary actually does. It has been in the wild since 2019 and sees serious use across the security research and malware analysis community. When it ships with a networked server mode (GhidraServer) that allows teams to share analysis work over RMI, that server mode becomes an interesting target.

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Auditing Ghidra Server Authentication: 63 Findings Across the Auth Stack