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CVE-2022-0496 json

A vulnerbiility was found in Openscad, where a DXF-format drawing with particular (not necessarily malformed!) properties may cause an out-…

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-15633

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerbiility was found in Openscad, where a DXF-format drawing with particular (not necessarily malformed!) properties may cause an out-of-bounds memory access when imported using import().

Patch / fix

  • openscad openscad 2022-02-04
  • openscad Debian 13, Debian 12 2021.01-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0496

  • openscad openSUSE Tumbleweed 2021.01-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11817-1

  • openscad Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 2021.01-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-0496

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0496 updated cvss 7.1

openscad: Out-of-bounds memory access in DXF loader

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/4037 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a openscad

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.