What is CVE-2022-41179?

CVE-2022-41179 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Author, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-10-11.

How severe is CVE-2022-41179?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Author

CVE-2022-41179

Due to lack of proper memory management, when a victim opens a manipulated Jupiter Tesselation (.jt, JtTranslator.exe) file received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author - version 9, it is possible that a Remote Code Execution can be triggered when payload forces a stack-based overflow or a re-use of dangling pointer which refers to overwritten space in memory.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.005 (40.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Sap 3d_visual_enterprise_author — versions 9.0
Sap Se 3d Visual Enterprise Author — versions 9

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cna@sap.com (Vendor Advisory)
cna@sap.com (Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-41179?: CVE-2022-41179 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Author, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-10-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-41179?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.