Security advisory
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 which could lead to information disclosure. 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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13498
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 which could lead to information disclosure. 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.
osv:CVE-2020-13498
Complete source record
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