Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting materialx package, versions [1.39.2,1.39.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MATERIALX-11509800
  • published8 Aug 2025
  • disclosed31 Jul 2025
  • creditsuidpit, TheZ3ro, ndaprela, smaury

Introduced: 31 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-53009  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade MaterialX to version 1.39.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack-based Buffer Overflow via the XML parsing process. An attacker can cause a crash by providing a specially crafted MTLX file with deeply nested nodegraph elements, leading to stack exhaustion during recursive parsing.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1