CVE-2011-10015

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.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cytel-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930

https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215830/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/20110301000000*/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rb

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-13

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: 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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00022