Code execution via embedded USD Python
Published Jan 12, 2023 · Updated Apr 8, 2025
Code injection in affected NVIDIA Omniverse Kit reference applications allows remote attackers to run Python via a crafted USD file. The embedded-script extensions automatically execute Python stored in a USD scene when the application opens the file, without separating scene data from executable content. Exploitation requires a local user to open the attacker's file; the code runs with that user's privileges and can disclose or alter data or interrupt the application.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in affected NVIDIA Omniverse Kit reference applications allows remote attackers to run Python via a crafted USD file. The embedded-script extensions automatically execute Python stored in a USD scene when the application opens the file, without separating scene data from executable content. Exploitation requires a local user to open the attacker's file; the code runs with that user's privileges and can disclose or alter data or interrupt the application.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-42268
- Published
- Jan 12, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2025
- Vendor
- NVIDIA
- Product
- NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face
- Classifications
- CWE-94, CWE-74, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 12, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All versions prior to 2022.2
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