CVE-2020-13497

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-119

Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the way Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 handles parses certain encoded types. A specially crafted malformed file can trigger an arbitrary out of bounds memory access in String Type Index. This vulnerability could be used to bypass mitigations and aid further exploitation. To trigger this vulnerability, the victim needs to access an attacker-provided malformed file.

Affected products

Pixar OpenUSD: 20.05

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1105
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1105

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