# CVE-2025-53012: MaterialX's Lack of Import Depth Limit Leads to DoS (Denial-Of-Service) Via Stack Exhaustion

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-1608, GHSA-QC2H-74X3-4V3W
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/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=yes, 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, nested imports of MaterialX files can lead to a crash via stack memory exhaustion, due to the lack of a limit on the "import chain" depth. When parsing file imports, recursion is used to process nested files; however, there is no limit imposed to the depth of files that can be parsed by the library. By building a sufficiently deep chain of MaterialX files one referencing the next, it is possible to crash the process using the MaterialX library via stack exhaustion. 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-qc2h-74x3-4v3w
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/pull/2233/commits/6182c07467297416a30d148ab531d81198686dc5
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/blob/main/documents/Specification/MaterialX.Specification.md#mtlx-file-format-definition
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3

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