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Description

Cytel Studio version 9.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by parsing a malformed .CY3 file. The vulnerability occurs when the application copies user-controlled strings into a fixed-size stack buffer (256 bytes) without proper bounds checking. Exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when the crafted file is opened.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-08-12 | Published 2025-08-13 | Updated 2025-08-14 | Assigner VulnCheck




CRITICAL: 9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Problem types

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Credits

Luigi Auriemma finder

References

raw.githubusercontent.com/.../fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rb exploit

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930 exploit

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027 exploit

aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txt technical-description exploit

web.archive.org/...ttp://www.cytel.com/Software/LogXact.aspx product

web.archive.org/...tp://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx product

web.archive.org/...tp://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx product

www.vulncheck.com/...l-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2011-10015)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2011-10015)

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