CVE-2011-10015

Aug. 13, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

9.3
Critical

Description

Cytel Studio version 9.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by parsing a malformed .CY3 file. The vulnerability occurs when the application copies user-controlled strings into a fixed-size stack buffer (256 bytes) without proper bounds checking. Exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when the crafted file is opened.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Cytel
  • Cytel Studio
  • 9.0

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-121
Stack-based Buffer Overflow
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a cytel cytel_studio 9.0 / / / / / / /

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rb
https://web.archive.org/web/20110301000000*/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215826/http://www.cytel.com/Software/LogXact.aspx
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215830/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cytel-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow

Tags

CWE-121
disclosure@vulncheck.com
2025-08-13
CVE-2011-10015

CVSS Score

9.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: ACTIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 13, 2025, 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 13, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

disclosure@vulncheck.com

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