AcademySoftwareFoundation MaterialX up to 1.39.2 MaterialX File Parser resource consumption

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in AcademySoftwareFoundation MaterialX up to 1.39.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component MaterialX File Parser. Executing a manipulation can lead to resource consumption. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-53012. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in AcademySoftwareFoundation MaterialX up to 1.39.2. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component MaterialX File Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-53012 since 06/24/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.39.3 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-23394). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• AcademySoftwareFoundation

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• MaterialX

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• 1.39.0
• 1.39.1
• 1.39.2

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• Product: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/

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