Process crash via aliased mesh-channel buffers
Published Jul 3, 2026 · Updated Jul 3, 2026
Double free in Assimp 6.0.0 through 6.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to crash an integrating process with a crafted PLY model. SceneCombiner::CopyScene flat-copies mesh channel pointers, then skips deep-copying UV or color buffers when a channel is empty or its mesh has zero vertices, so both scenes own the same allocation. Reachability requires an application to import the crafted PLY data and pass that scene to ExportToBlob; the published AddressSanitizer reproduction terminates the process, while code execution is not demonstrated.
Summary
What happened
Double free in Assimp 6.0.0 through 6.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to crash an integrating process with a crafted PLY model. SceneCombiner::CopyScene flat-copies mesh channel pointers, then skips deep-copying UV or color buffers when a channel is empty or its mesh has zero vertices, so both scenes own the same allocation. Reachability requires an application to import the crafted PLY data and pass that scene to ExportToBlob; the published AddressSanitizer reproduction terminates the process, while code execution is not demonstrated.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-14604
- Published
- Jul 3, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 3, 2026
- Vendor
- Open Asset Import Library
- Product
- Assimp
- Classifications
- CWE-119, CWE-415
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 3, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 3, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=6.0.0
- Affected versionversion=6.0.1
- Affected versionversion=6.0.2
- Affected versionversion=6.0.3
- Affected versionversion=6.0.4
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What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Assimp PLY Import and ExportToBlob proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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