What is CVE-2024-48426?

CVE-2024-48426 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Assimp, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2024-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2024-48426?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Assimp

CVE-2024-48426

A segmentation fault (SEGV) was detected in the SortByPTypeProcess::Execute function in the Assimp library during fuzz testing with AddressSanitizer. The crash occurred due to a read access to an invalid memory address (0x1000c9714971).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (14.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Assimp — versions 5.4.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-48426?: CVE-2024-48426 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Assimp, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 6.2/10. Published 2024-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2024-48426?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.2 out of 10.