# CVE-2025-53011: MaterialX is Vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference due to Unchecked implGraphOutput

- Also known as: GHSA-7QW8-3VMF-GJ32, PYSEC-2026-1607
- Severity: CVSS 2.0 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.39.3
- Published: 2025-08-01 · Updated: 2025-08-01

## Affected

- AcademySoftwareFoundation MaterialX: from 1.39.2, fixed in 1.39.3
- materialx (PyPI): from 1.39.2, fixed in 1.39.3

## Description

MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. In version 1.39.2, 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. An attacker could intentionally crash a target program that uses MaterialX by sending a malicious MTLX file. This is fixed in version 1.39.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on AcademySoftwareFoundation MaterialX, materialx, upgrade to a fixed version (1.39.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/security/advisories/GHSA-7qw8-3vmf-gj32
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/commit/7ac1c71de5187dc29793292b5a8dc6d784192ecf
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53011

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