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CVE-2021-45948

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-01-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Open Asset Import Library (aka assimp) 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in _m3d_safestr (called from m3d_load and Assimp::M3DWrapper::M3DWrapper).

Affected products

• Open Asset Import Library Assimp: 5.1.0, 5.1.1

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34416
• https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/assimp/OSV-2021-775.yaml
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-01
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34416
• https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/assimp/OSV-2021-775.yaml
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-01

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