CVE-2025-53012 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2025-53012

MaterialX's Lack of Import Depth Limit Leads to DoS (Denial-Of-Service) Via Stack Exhaustion

5.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. In version 1.39.2, nested imports of MaterialX files can lead to a crash via stack memory exhaustion, due to the lack of a limit on the "import chain" depth. When parsing file imports, recursion is used to process nested files; however, there is no limit imposed to the depth of files that can be parsed by the library. By building a sufficiently deep chain of MaterialX files one referencing the next, it is possible to crash the process using the MaterialX library via stack exhaustion. This is fixed in version 1.39.3.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

AcademySoftwareFoundation

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Affected Software

MaterialX

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 1.39.2, < 1.39.3

Timeline

Official Publish: August 1st, 2025

Last Modified: August 1st, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1498 Network Denial of Service