GHSA-7qw8-3vmf-gj32
MaterialX Null Pointer Dereference in MaterialXCore Shader Generation due to Unchecked implGraphOutput
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
When parsing shader nodes in a MTLX file, the MaterialXCore code accesses a potentially null pointer, which can lead to crashes with maliciously crafted files.
### Details
In `source/MaterialXCore/Material.cpp`, the following code extracts the output nodes for a given implementation graph:
```cpp
InterfaceElementPtr impl = materialNodeDef->getImplementation();
if (impl && impl->isA<NodeGraph>())
{
NodeGraphPtr implGraph = impl->asA<NodeGraph>();
for (OutputPtr defOutput : materialNodeDef->getOutputs())
{
if (defOutput->getType() == MATERIAL_TYPE_STRING)
{
OutputPtr implGraphOutput = implGraph->getOutput(defOutput->getName());
for (GraphIterator it = implGraphOutput->traverseGraph().begin(); it != GraphIterator::end(); ++it)
{
ElementPtr upstreamElem = it.getUpstreamElement();
if (!upstreamElem)
{
it.setPruneSubgraph(true);
continue;
}
NodePtr upstreamNode = upstreamElem->asA<Node>();
if (upstreamNode && upstream
```
However, when defining the `implGraphOutput` variable by getting the output node, the code doesn't check whether its value is null before accessing its iterator `traverseGraph()`. This leads to a potential null pointer dereference.
### PoC
Please download `nullptr_implgraph.mtlx` from the following link:
https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53011
`build/bin/MaterialXView --material nullptr_implgraph.mtlx`
### Impact
An attacker could intentionally crash a target program that uses MaterialX by sending a malicious MTLX file.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/security/advisories/GHSA-7qw8-3vmf-gj32
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53011
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/commit/7ac1c71de5187dc29793292b5a8dc6d784192ecf
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53011