GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-wx6g-fm6f-w822 MaterialX Stack Overflow via Lack of MTLX XML Parsing Recursion Limit

MEDIUM Published 2025-07-31 Modified 2026-06-11 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-53009
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
MaterialX
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Weaknesses
CWE-121
Reviewed
2025-07-31

Affected packages

• PyPI MaterialX: >= 1.39.2, < 1.39.3 → fixed in 1.39.3

Description

Summary When parsing an MTLX file with multiple nested `nodegraph` implementations, the MaterialX XML parsing logic can potentially crash due to stack exhaustion. Details By specification, multiple kinds of elements in MTLX support nesting other elements, such as in the case of `nodegraph` elements. Parsing these subtrees is implemented via recursion, and since there is no max depth imposed on the XML document, this can lead to a stack overflow when the library parses an MTLX file with an excessively high number of nested elements. PoC Please download the `recursion_overflow.mtlx` file from the following link: https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53009 `build/bin/MaterialXView --material recursion_overflow.mtlx` Impact An attacker could intentionally crash a target program that uses MaterialX by sending a malicious MTLX file.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-53009 MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References