diff --git a/Ghidra/Features/Decompiler/ghidra_scripts/classrecovery/RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer.java b/Ghidra/Features/Decompiler/ghidra_scripts/classrecovery/RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer.java
index 8d5d807070..5cceca4fff 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Features/Decompiler/ghidra_scripts/classrecovery/RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Features/Decompiler/ghidra_scripts/classrecovery/RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer.java
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * 
+ *
  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
+ *
  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
@@ -868,7 +868,12 @@ public class RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer extends RTTIClassRecoverer {
 
 			// Get class name from class vftable is in
 			Namespace classNamespace = classHierarchyDescriptorSymbol.getParentNamespace();
-
+			if (classNamespace.isGlobal()) {
+				Msg.warn(this, "ClassHierarchyDescriptor at " + classHierarchyDescriptorAddress +
+					" is unexpectedly in the Global namespace so processing cannot continue for " +
+					"this class");
+				continue;
+			}
 			// get the data type category associated with the given class namespace
 			Category category = getDataTypeCategory(classNamespace);
 
@@ -2484,7 +2489,7 @@ public class RTTIWindowsClassRecoverer extends RTTIClassRecoverer {
 					baseClassDescriptorAddress.toString());
 				continue;
 			}
-			
+
 			// Continue if the class has mult inh but base class is not on the parent list
 			if (!recoveredClass.getParentList().contains(baseClass)) {
 				continue;