GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-wx6g-fm6f-w822 MaterialX Stack Overflow via Lack of MTLX XML Parsing Recursion Limit
MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/security/advisories/GHSA-wx6g-fm6f-w822 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53009 advisory
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/issues/2504 web
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/pull/2505 web
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/commit/91ffea0de7bfe7bcd0c399b07f04fc48227055ff web
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX package
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3 web
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53009 web