CVE-2025-53009: MaterialX Stack Overflow via Lack of MTLX XML Parsing Recursion Limit
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When parsing an MTLX file with multiple nested nodegraph implementations, the MaterialX XML parsing logic can potentially crash due to stack exhaustion.
References
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/commit/91ffea0de7bfe7bcd0c399b07f04fc48227055ff
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/issues/2504
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/pull/2505
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/security/advisories/GHSA-wx6g-fm6f-w822
- github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53009
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-wx6g-fm6f-w822
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53009
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