CVE-2025-5202

LOW

Assimp < 5.4.3 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability was found in Open Asset Import Library Assimp 5.4.3. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function HL1MDLLoader::validate_header of the file assimp/code/AssetLib/MDL/HalfLife/HL1MDLLoader.cpp. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read. An attack has to be approached locally. 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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.310291
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry signature permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310291
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.578007
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6174
Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6128

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 29.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
assimp/assimp < 5.4.3
Published May 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026