CVE-2020-13494

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-12-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 parsing of compressed string tokens in binary USD files. A specially crafted malformed file can trigger a heap overflow which can result in out of bounds memory access which could lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability could be used to bypass mitigations and aid further exploitation. To trigger this vulnerability, victim needs to access an attacker-provided malformed file.

Affected products

Pixar OpenUSD: 20.05

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1103
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1103

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