CVE-2020-28599

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the import_stl.cc:import_stl() functionality of Openscad openscad-2020.12-RC2. A specially crafted STL file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
openscad: through 2021.01

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AFXQZK6BAYARVVWBBXDKPVPN3N77PPDX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KRHYUWXQ7QQIC6TXDYYLYFFF7B7L3EBD/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-35
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1223
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1224
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AFXQZK6BAYARVVWBBXDKPVPN3N77PPDX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KRHYUWXQ7QQIC6TXDYYLYFFF7B7L3EBD/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-35
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1223
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1224

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