pyvista 0.46.3 code injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in pyvista 0.46.3. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes code injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-61774. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in pyvista 0.46.3. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PyVista provides 3D plotting and mesh analysis through an interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). Version 0.46.3 of the PyVista Project is vulnerable to remote code execution via dependency confusion. Two pieces of code use`--extra-index-url`. But when `--extra-index-url` is used, pip always checks for the PyPI index first, and then the external index. One package listed in the code is not published in PyPI. If an attacker publishes a package with higher version in PyPI, the malicious code from the attacker controlled package may be pulled, leading to remote code execution and a supply chain attack. As of time of publication, a patched version is unavailable.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-61774 since 09/30/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying the patch aabfb3db2b0d4980de9e94e66272240efba4ed95 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• pyvista

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• 0.46.3

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/

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