CVE-2024-40724

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Jul 19, 2024
Updated: Mar 25, 2025
Reserved: Jul 9, 2024

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Assimp versions prior to 5.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code by inputting a specially crafted file into the product.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AssimpOpen Asset Import Library	prior to 5.4.2Affected

References

https://github.com/assimp/assimp/releases/tag/v5.4.2
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/pull/5651/commits/614911bb3b1bfc3a1799ae2b3cca306270f3fb97
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87710540/

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