CVE-2025-3016

Open Asset Import Library Assimp MDL File MDLMaterialLoader.cpp ParseTextureColorData resource consumption

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Mar 31, 2025
Updated: Mar 31, 2025
Reserved: Mar 31, 2025

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Open Asset Import Library Assimp 5.4.3. This vulnerability affects the function Assimp::MDLImporter::ParseTextureColorData of the file code/AssetLib/MDL/MDLMaterialLoader.cpp of the component MDL File Handler. The manipulation of the argument mWidth/mHeight leads to resource consumption. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 6.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 5d2a7482312db2e866439a8c05a07ce1e718bed1. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulDB
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB
3.0	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB
2.0	5.0 Medium	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Resource Consumption
CWE-404 Denial of Service

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AssimpOpen Asset Import Library	5.4.3Affected

References

VDB-302068 | Open Asset Import Library Assimp MDL File MDLMaterialLoader.cpp ParseTextureColorData resource consumptionvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-302068 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #524593 | Open Asset Import Library Assimp >=5.4.3 Uncontrolled Memory Allocationthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6022issue-tracking
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/pull/6046issue-tracking
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/commit/5d2a7482312db2e866439a8c05a07ce1e718bed1patch

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