CVE-2025-5165 – Assimp Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-5165 vulnerability over time.

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impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    May. 26, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability was found in Open Asset Import Library Assimp 5.4.3 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function MDCImporter::ValidateSurfaceHeader of the file assimp/code/AssetLib/MDC/MDCLoader.cpp. The manipulation of the argument pcSurface2 leads to out-of-bounds read. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The project decided to collect all Fuzzer bugs in a main-issue to address them in the future.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CWE CWE-125
    Added Reference https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6128
    Added Reference https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6167
    Added Reference https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20204942/reproducer.zip
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310253
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.310253
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.578000
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