GHSA-7qw8-3vmf-gj32
MaterialX Null Pointer Dereference in MaterialXCore Shader Generation due to Unchecked implGraphOutput
Details
### 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.
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Affected packages
1.39.2 Fixed in: 1.39.3 pip install --upgrade 'materialx>=1.39.3' References
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/security/advisories/GHSA-7qw8-3vmf-gj32 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53011 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/commit/7ac1c71de5187dc29793292b5a8dc6d784192ecf [WEB]
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/MaterialX/releases/tag/v1.39.3 [WEB]
- https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree/main/CVE-2025-53011 [WEB]