Adobe Substance3D Sampler up to 4.5.1 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Substance3D Sampler up to 4.5.1. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-52996. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Substance3D Sampler up to 4.5.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Substance3D - Sampler versions 4.5.1 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

It is possible to read the advisory at helpx.adobe.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-52996 since 11/18/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212762 (Adobe Substance 3D Sampler 4.5.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (apsb24-100)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (212762). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Adobe

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• Substance3D Sampler

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• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.adobe.com/

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